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Last year, during my last months in Melbourne, I got a text from one of my closest and oldest friends from Italy
“We need to talk, I have some important news for you. Skype?”
Minutes later, we were online. I see him show up in the video, his girlfriend next to him and they both had THAT smile on their face.
I knew it before they even said it: “We're getting married!”
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I shot this portraits of Emi Nishimura Canavan.
Emi is a brilliant Japanese actress now living in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband Phillip.
Read MoreHey T,
I hope you had a safe flight back home.
I’m so glad we were finally able to spend a couple of months here in Melbourne together! There were so many places I wanted to show you, so many people I wanted you to meet.
Read MoreWhen I received the email from Head On confirming me I was a finalist, I was happy beyond control. As I usually do, I started jumping around, being stupidly loud for no real reason and, most especially, I completely lost the ability to stand still for the next few hours. Yup, I’m just like a big baby.
For the following weeks I tried AS HARD AS I COULD not to create any expectations but hey, remember? Big baby.
Read MoreSo here's how things are going down:
I looked everywhere to find the perfect word to singlehandedly describe this last year.
I found one : intense.
2014 was indeed a very intense year for me.
Very high ups, very low downs. Divided among 3 continents, 5 time zones and way more seasons that one would normally experience. Over 6000 km on a bicycle, an average of 3 hours of walking a day and countless long hours sitting on my bum.
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Stand up comedian Eriq Law as I met him at "Spleen"
A the beginning of August I packed my belongings in a backpack and moved to Melbourne.
There’s a million reasons why I did that and this is not the blog post to talk about it, but one of the main reason is te fact that I want to work with comedians a lot and Melbourne is Australia’s Stand Up Comedy Capital.
In these first six months I went to every single stand up comedy night I could afford and studied the scene to understand better how to work with them.
In doing so, I found myself spending a ridiculous amount of time around or with stand up comedians.
I found out that stand up comedians and photographers feel very strongly towards their passion and, surprisingly, in a very similar way!
Read MoreRooftop beers on Race Course day. (Naked For Satan, Fitzroy)
You know those sleepless nights spent on the computer, jumping between Youtube videos, tech blogs, facebook, weird twitter accounts ecc ecc? Well, I had one of those over a month ago.
No, wait. That's a lie. I have one of those EVERY OTHER DAY.
But in that particular one, over a month ago, something different happened : for some weird reason, I kept stumbling upon content that had to do with medium format film. Youtube videos of photographers talking about it (yes, Zack Arias played a major role there), reviews of medium format digital bodies and comparisons with film, entire new bodies of work shot of old Hasselblad cameras and tons of other stuff I couldn't recall to save my life.
Long story short, before giving my eyes a rest from hours and hours of internet and surrender to sleep, I found an old Mamiya 645E body + lens bundle on Ebay Australia and bought it for dirt cheap.
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