NIGHT LIGHTS OF NISHINARI
A short film about Nishinari, the area of Osaka’s homless.
A short film about Nishinari, the area of Osaka’s homless.
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…
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…
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,…
Beni&Akou, great friends and great musicians. They played at Modern Times, in Kyoto, on april 1st and I had the opportunity to shoot some photos of their live.Don’t miss them if you are in Kyoto. Akou (vocal) / Beni Zamza (piano) / Saito Keishiroh (bass) / Asada Manatou (sax) / Hiroshi ‘Dunhill’ Mizukami (drums)
This time Beni and Akou played in Osaka. It was a good chance to listen to some good music and test my new M9!!
Copiapò is a small town in the middle of the arid Atacama desert, on the northern side of Chile. It lays in a valley surrounded by hills made of just sand and stones. Stepping out of the airplane door a lunar landscape opens before one’s eyes. (read more after the pictures.) The economy…