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.
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.
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…
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…
I took these pictures during a journey in Malawi in 2005. I traveled with volunteers working in the area of Mangochi. They drove me through small villages to help people suffering of aids and malaria, we visited hospitals and missions.This trip was possible thanks to the Municipality of Paratico. Paratico is a small city not…
————- Click on the images to enlarge ————- Portraits of immigration in Italy. In the attempt to better know each other. Ritratti dell’immigrazione in Italia. Nel tentativo di conoscerci meglio. ————- Click on the images to enlarge ————-
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…