Life is simple, embrace the banality – la vita è semplice, abbracciando la banalità.
Life is simple, meeting the professional.
Life is simple, even on a day without diary-worthy events.
Life is simple. Taking the pulse of the academic environment.
Life is simple. Go to Menen and return the same day.
Looking for windows – alla ricerca della fenestra perduta
Every photograph is a battle of form versus content. The good ones are on the border of failure.
Winogrand
In the ‘purgatorio locale’, part 2. Seeing colors.
‘Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’ entrate!’ E voi che guardate…
Spending hours in Menen. Thinking of Dante Alighieri, staying in the ‘purgatorio locale’, trying to solve computer problems.
‘Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’ entrate!’
Tribute to Menen, a town guided by local politicians.
(24 hours, 4 reasons in one day)
Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. Roger von Oech
(Real people)
(Michèle)
(At work)
(I wasn’t looking for friends)
(The truth about Menen, reconfirmed)
‘To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.’
Susan Sontag
(A day off)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair
(Perspective bonus)