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,…
In 2003 I spent a couple of weeks in Kathmandu with a japanese friend who often visits Nepal to help charity organizations.Some of the images are just about the place, but a few were realized thanks to the support of ROKPA.Rokpa is an international non profit organization that operates in Tibet and Nepal.Here is their…
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…
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…
I took these pictures between 2000 and 2002.At first it was just a trip to Romania. We wanted to have some relax and spend some time taking pictures.We had a unique experience during our first visit. Romania is great and people are fantastic. We had been guests in a funeral, taken underground in a mine…
