window seat, plz I’m a window seat guy. I still remember once when the airline reassigned seats and dropped me in the center right of a middle line of four on a 14-hour flight. I never ever flew with them again. Bad airline. Mine is not a fixation, it’s a necessity, when I sit at … Continue reading
where I go I grew up in a house with a backyard in a small town surrounded by lakes and countryside, but I lived most of my adult and professional life in big cities: Milan, New York and Buenos Aires. Here, when looking for relaxation and the signs of the passing seasons, I used to … Continue reading
TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY ADVENTURES in analog times In the nineties I had the chance to work extensively for a few travel and life-style magazines while I was based first in Milan, Italy and later in New York, NY. When on assignment the schedule was usually tight and the time to photograph not always in sync with … Continue reading
CABA Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires Is it possible to synthesize the soul of a city through photographs of its buildings? The work of Michele Molinari heads in that direction, overlooking the Buenos Aires of historic monuments and focusing on the common dwellings that stud the skyline of the porteña city. They are boundary lines by … Continue reading
THAT SKY BOOK Michele Molinari lived for a few years in Recoleta, an aristocratic neighborhood that still keeps something of the old Frenchified past that the upper bourgeoisie treasured. And from there, from a permanent window and a fixed camera, he could assess the two qualities of the Buenos Aires sky: first, its fidelity and … Continue reading
BUENOS AIRES ” … Walls, smooth and bare, which Molinari photographs closing up on its own camera lens, show a dreary and anonymous city side, even though in his framings, bolds and never trivials, the photographer is able to unearth and celebrate, of these white concrete buildings, a hidden and austere, almost majestic, beauty. ” … Continue reading
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