Photography and Journalism

Poor and blind people

2009-03-10T09:42:00.002+01:00

A blind man sings a song on a sidewalk in downtown Kathmandu.

Cambodian baby

2009-03-09T16:32:00.002+01:00

Phnom Penh:
A Cambodian baby looks for food in a trash can in downtown Phnom Penh near the Tonle Sap river.

Cambodian baby

2009-03-09T16:27:00.002+01:00

Phnom Penh:

A Cambodian baby looks for food in a trash can in downtown Phnom Penh near the Tonle Sap river.

Something about my travels

2009-02-25T19:23:00.000+01:00

My first travel was to Thailand but I said to my father that I was going to London but when I returned wearing a silk shirt and tanned I had to say the truth to him. All my travels can be remembered as wonderful moments and heartfelt human experiences.I feel attracted by the people. I love to take pictures and writing on their conditions of life and the camera is my third eye. I say: "If you loose that moment, you will never recover it, even in ten thousand years.""We should all feel citizens of this world and I already feel it!"

Notes about photojournalism

2009-02-25T19:21:00.000+01:00

The freelance photographer is, by definition, autonomous and independent. In order to be a good photojournalist, we should try to work with fundamental discretion. Try, when possible, to put oneself in the clothes of those we are recording. We must be able to see the world through their eyes. When we absolutely want to photograph something that we find difficult to shoot in that moment, even though we receive a refusal, our mission is to try patiently to create the most opportune conditions in order to succeed.

Prepare your mind to your next travel

2009-02-25T19:19:00.000+01:00

I think that travelling around the world is one of the most important experiences to spend in our short lives. It will help you to understand many unknown aspects connected to other cultures. Every new travel and every new contact with other people, will touch yourself in an extraordinary manner. But you shoud try to travel alone in order to have a great full immersion experience and a most complete understanding of foreigner culture.Always take in advance all the necessary info.

My vision of Travel Photojournalism

2009-02-25T19:17:00.001+01:00

Going somewhere in order to report on events with images requires a multi-faceted knowledge. But the first requirement is a deep humility. We should never forget that we are in a country as guests. Arrogance and bad behavior will never produce good results and we risk destroying all our efforts with a few inappropriate actions.
Moreover, it is necessary to be able to adapt and learn. Before arriving it is important to study and gather all possible information on the country's political and religious situation, past and contemporary history, and the cultural habits of its people.
The first phase is dedicated to the development of the information: Record personal stories and fragments of stories to help gather a more vivid picture of the history of a people and of their way of living.
Then there is the social context: Try, when possible, to put oneself in the clothes of those we are recording. We must be able to see the world through their eyes.

We, the Camera, and the Others

In order to be a good photojournalist, we should try to work with fundamental discretion. We should spend almost all our time unnoticed, to integrate ourselves with local people in order to create the possibility to shoot the most natural photographs. Everybody responds in different ways in front of a photographic lens. Some may be shy, some like to be photographed. In Cambodia, a child realizing that I was ready to aim the camera, turned herself towards me and, raising her arm, made me understand that she did not want to be photographed. We should consider our camera like a spy’s microphone and try to render it almost invisible. It must be used with rapidity and cleverness. When we absolutely want to photograph something that we find difficult to shoot in that moment, even though we receive a refusal, our mission is to try patiently to create the most opportune conditions in order to succeed. Cover the lens and try to establish a friendly rapport, with smiles and much patience. My experience teaches that with a bit of skill it is possible to overcome the distrust.

Autonomy and Independence

The freelance photographer is, by definition, autonomous and independent, but he has much more difficulty in placing his work than a photojournalist that works as a correspondent for a newspaper or for a photographic agency. The big difficulty derives from the economic aspect. Every freelancer is forced to finance his travels. All of this in order to hope to sell something. In compensation he can count on a total autonomy because nobody will ever tell him how to do his work.
An example of interference and lack of respect by an editor is represented by an episode of a beloved friend, a famous old Italian photo reporter who has worked for decades with many important national and international newspapers in war zones. He also traveled in the Cambodian jungle with the Khmer Rouge and often worked in the hottest places around the world.
He was abroad during a conflict and his director called him at the hotel asking him to take a picture that he had dreamt during the night. He wanted an image of a woman escaping with a child in her arms and in the background a church in flames, and he wanted the picture taken at sunset! Imagine finding a church in flames, then spotting a crying and fleeing woman with a child in her arms and having to say to the lady: "Excuse me madam, could you escape from this side so that I can better frame the church which I have set on fire? And escape this evening, not now, I mean around 7 p.m. so that the flames may be better highlighted against the twilight!" The editor had forgotten that this was a land of a conflict, not a photo studio. The photographer, offended by the lack of professionalism, "fired" his editor. Nobody, more than a photographer, can know, once in a place, what to do, how to do it and, above all, when to do it.

Leprosarium

2009-02-25T18:13:00.003+01:00

Pashupatinath, Nepal

A young boy living in a Nepalese leprosarium.

Fruit seller

2009-02-25T18:08:00.001+01:00

A very young fruit seller takes relax on the sidewalk in downtown Kathmandu

Washing clothes

2009-02-25T18:03:00.001+01:00

Patang, Nepal.
A young girl washes her clothes using the rainy water.

The Green

2009-02-25T11:57:00.004+01:00

A fantastic moment taken with my camera through the sacred gardens of Lumbini. A mother with her daughter, both dressed with green clothes, walk through the natutal green of this magic and mystical place.

I Love this picture!

The shower

2009-02-25T11:53:00.003+01:00

The are several ways to wash the body. Some poor nepalese people found this one

The Grandfather

2009-02-25T11:40:00.002+01:00

Walking with my camera through the sacred gardens of Lumbini and Kapilavastu I was attracted by this tender moment between a poor grandfather and his crying nephew. He told me that the babe was crying because very hungry and scared.

Proud to be a mother

2009-02-25T11:31:00.005+01:00

This picture was taken at Lumbini (Nepal) near Indian border. Lumbini was the native holyland of Lord Buddha. This mother is walking with bared feet through the forest with her baby on the right arm. She walks proudly as a warrior. Yes a warrior, but a sweet warrior.

Caves of Matera

2009-02-08T18:57:00.004+01:00

Everytime I take a look to my pictures taken at Matera, I feel emotional.
This is one of the most beautiful, incredible, special and enchanting cities
of the world with its Spontaneous architecture. In 1993, UNESCO declared the site as part of our 'Human Heritage'.

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The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:12:00.000+02:00

The secondary gate from where escaped Fabrizio, the godfather's bodyguard

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:11:00.001+02:00

Detail of the balcony

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:07:00.000+02:00

Castello degli Schiavi in Fiumefreddo

View of the yard and view of the well from the balcony of Al Pacino

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:06:00.000+02:00

Castello degli schiavi . The famous well in the yard

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:04:00.000+02:00

Castello degli Schiavi in Fiumefreddo

Them main gate. Here Apollonia died due the explosion

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:02:00.000+02:00

Castello degli Schiavi in Fiumefreddo

The house where Al Pacino spent the first night with Apollonia.

The Godfather

2007-10-11T15:01:00.000+02:00

Forza D'Agrò. The Church Santissima Annunziata

The Godfather

2007-10-11T14:59:00.000+02:00

Forza D'Agrò

Al Pacino shows to Diane Keaton the house where his father (Vito Corleone) was born

The Godfather

2007-10-11T14:57:00.000+02:00

Savoca - Overview

The Godfather

2007-10-11T14:55:00.000+02:00

The original chairs used by Al Pacino and his bodyguards at the Bar Vitelli

The Godfather (Savoca)

2007-10-11T14:53:00.001+02:00

The church San Nicolò where Michael Corleone married Apollonia

On the Godfather's Tracks

2007-10-11T14:38:00.000+02:00

I returned to Sicily to shoot many pictures to the locations of the movies "The Godfather 1,2,3" by Francis Ford Coppola.

This is the bar Vitelli in Savoca. Do you remember it?

Some portraits from Nepal

2007-08-30T19:42:00.000+02:00

Alinari Photo Exhibition in Florence

2007-05-28T11:55:00.000+02:00

I'm proud to say that one of my pictures took part to the Alinari's exhibition "Ritratti" commissioned by the Minister of the Family.
The exhibition was opened in Florence by the Minister Rosy Bindi at the Istituto degli Innocenti.
The exhibition will close on next June 23, 2007

Site restyling

2006-11-23T10:38:00.000+01:00

Just to inform you about the graphic restyling work on my site www.frcreations.it and many other pictures from Sicily

Intro

2005-09-04T12:43:00.000+02:00

I am a photojournalist that work for many magazines in the tourism and social contests. I think that Photojournalism can be of any interst for many people.
Let's discover how can be gratifying writing articles on the pictures we shot