27 May, 2025
Parakeets Playing it Cool in the Cold
This post is a short, personal record of London’s wild parakeets, seen from a fourth-floor window in West London, from winter into spring. It can be easy to miss what is just ou...
Danilo Leonardi's Posts
13 May, 2025
A Terrace with a View – A One Shot Story.
In 2015, for several months, I spent three days a week working on the Isle of Wight. I would drive from London to Portsmouth, take the car ferry, and then travel to various loca...
London was crowned the eighth most expensive city on the planet last year, according to Mercer’s 2024 Cost of Living Index. Still, even in the heart of this priciest place to li...
9 August, 2024
An Accidental Living-Room – A One Shot Story
The photograph illustrating this post was taken nine summers ago, on a Sunday, while I was walking along the Thames Path in East London, not far from the Canada Water DLR Statio...
On my way to catch the tube at King’s Cross Station, I heard music coming from the other end of the piazza. For a split-second, it all felt surreal. About 50 meters from the b...
Visualise entering a space lit by artificial light, where the outlining of day and night blurs, and everything you see is human-made. It is an environment where the architecture...
2 January, 2024
Blur as protagonist: an attempt to take the pulse of the city
I asked myself what my strongest perception is of being in London. It is a mixture of images and sound: the sheer volume of the movement of crowds and vehicles in the street, to...