11 May, 2026
The City Speaking All At Once – A One Shot Story
I was there after a morning meeting, part of the routine marketing work that freelancing tends to require, now walking through central London on my way to the tube station with ...
Danilo Leonardi's Posts
This article is partly a process note and partly a reflection on working with a consumer photobook service. It comes out of a small group project to make books for an in-store d...
31 January, 2026
Notes from a Journey Taken at Short Notice
In December 2023 I travelled to Rafaela, a town in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. I went because my father was very unwell. He was almost 90 and had just been moved into a...
30 October, 2025
5 Frames, some with the Bridge Turned into Shadow and Shape.
It sometimes seems as though every sunset has already been photographed. Most often, the image is of a landscape in the “golden hour,” a favourite of postcard pictures. Epic ski...
1 October, 2025
Beyond the Fog: 36 Views of Richmond Park
Each autumn, the pictures return. Mist hangs over the bracken, dawn light glows orange, and in the centre a stag, antlers catching the first rays or head tilted back in a roar. ...
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...
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...