“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
Florence seen by Chianti hills
“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.” ― Berenice Abbott
The Carnival of Venice
“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.” ― Don McCullin
A windmill in saltworks, Sicily
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
It’s about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It’s simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what’s around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” ― Elliott Erwitt
A farm in Valdorcia, Tuscany
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
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It's not easy to take new and original pictures of one of the most well-known and photographed places in the world... this has been for years and still is my challenge taking pictures of Florence.
Every time I come back in Chianti or Val d'Orcia, I always find an unforeseen location that captures me with its harmony, and I just decide that I'll be back here again.
The quality of beauty, and the quantity of beauty scattered around Rome is overwhelming. Every time I come back Rome I discover something that I didn't even suspect it existed.
Only if you've already been in Venice you can understand what I'm speaking about. No words can describe the enchantment of a person falling in love with Venice, while walking through it for the first time.
Many couples decide to come in Tuscany to get married, this makes me really honored to be born and live here: if they travel so far from their homeland for the special day of her life, this land must be special as well.
I was born in 1964 in Florence (Firenze), Italy, and I still live here. I am an Electronic Engineer converted to Information Technology since the middle of the ’80s; now I work at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. I began taking photographs when I was…