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Kyoto, January 2020. Featuring @_karakusakimono ————- Click on the images to enlarge ————-
Kyoto, January 2020. Featuring @_karakusakimono ————- Click on the images to enlarge ————-
A short film about Nishinari, the area of Osaka’s homless.
Japan. Cherry blossom, sushi, the bullet train. The usual picture of a geisha, real or a fake. The usual stereotypes. Since my first time in Japan, almost twenty years have passed. For almost eight years I have been living there. I cannot count how many times italian friends asked me if I was tired of sushi…
Americamura (that translates in “american village”) is a small district of Osaka, connected to the large shopping and entertainment area of Shinsaibashi.Americamura, or most comonly Amemura, is the place for cheap,casual or alternative fashion. It is also a good place for cheap junk food. It is a good place to spend a day walking through…
CHAPTER I: TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER CHAPTER II: TWO DAYS ON FUKUSHIMA CHAPTER III: FUKUSHIMA 2.0 TSUNAMI TWO MONTHS LATER Two months after the tsunami that hit the north east of Japan, I left Kyoto to join a group of volounteers of Caritas Japan (link). Purpose of the trip was, mainly, to help local people,…
If you get the subway at Shinsaibashi, in few stops you reach Dōbutsuen-mae station. When you get out, Osaka’s landscape has completely changed.No more trendy young people doing “bura-bura” (hanging out), Shinsaibashi’s and Dōtonbori’s big billboards are gone, department stores turned suddenly into small old fashioned shops.Walk a few hundreds meter south and you are…
In 2008, thanks to Yasu Suzuka (http://www.yasusuzuka.com/) and PPAS (Pinhole Photo Art Society http://ppas.jp/) I took part in a group exhibition in Mombetsu (Hokkaido, Japan). It was february, freezing cold.On the way back home I put the pinhole adapter on my DSLR and shoot Hokkaido’s landscape.Here are the results. IMAGES.
This is a series of four images of Hiroshima A-Bomb Dome (or genbaku dome, in japanese) taken in 2008 using a pinhole camera.The intent was to reproduce the instant of the explosion.Pinhole camera often gives an unpredictable result. Blur is its main feature and it is used to create “dreamy” images. But I thought that…