13 September, 2025
Master of Splatter
One midsummer’s night in San Benedetto del Tronto, a small town on the Adriatic coast, I attended a live concert by Claudio Simonetti, a living legend among Italian horror...
Last July, 29 I covered leg of Al Di Meola’s tour taking place in Abruzzo —my home region— for a magazine I work for. For once, I could have accepted an assignment even i...
12 March, 2025
Standing still while the music moves – Shooting musicians with point & shoot film cameras
Understanding point and shoot film photography has and always will be a labour of love. You can watch hundreds of videos on the right settings, the ‘best’ camera, the ‘perfect’ ...
1 November, 2024
Young Band Rocks at a Youth Rock Concert
This past weekend I attended a rock concert, in one of the youth theatres around here. The reason of my presence there was twofold: the theatre is run by a good friend of mine, ...
28 October, 2024
5 Frames with a Minolta XGM at Go Your Own Way
I have a multitude of cameras and lenses, collected over many years, including some left over from my professional photography days, Sadly I sold my Hasselblad 500CM, but kept ...
3 September, 2024
My Asylum Years
Back in 1979 I decided I’d had enough of the daily trudge of my office job for the past four years and considered it was maybe time to try something different. As I was quite en...
For most of the 1990’s, I knew nothing about photography. My teenage passion was for the rambunctious grunge guitar rock that, for a seemingly forgotten time, succeeded i...
22 March, 2023
Help! I like Dirty Pictures! – By Alex Kreisman
Yes I do! But maybe not in the way you might think! A couple of years ago, I had the chance to post an essay on one of my visits to an extermination camp in these very pages. I ...