AI can be used in many ways that do not necessarily involve creating photographic images. But even when AI is used to produce images that appear photographic, we are not actually engaging in photography.
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Giuseppe Satriani
When I was a child, I remember that a rather cruel way to expose the “gullible” and then make fun of them was to say, “Look! There's a flying donkey!” while pointing your index finger at any spot in the sky
Casa e Chiesa
Jun 6, 2025
My origins lie in the South of Italy, in Basilicata, where the pace of time is slower. Basilicata has been forgotten and abandoned by the rest of the Italians for a long, long time. A region that suddenly took a leap in fame because oil deposits were discovered in Sauro’s Valley and because Matera and its "Sassi" entered (unfortunately) in the mass tourism circuit.
We are immersed in the “WOW! Philosophy.” If someone takes a look at any social network, it quickly becomes evident that we are faced with a collection of events where there is no room for negativity, frustration, or even the so-called "boring" aspects of everyday life. It is as if everyone wants to escape from these very human emotions.
Life of forms
Jan 24, 2025
Reading the book “The Life of Forms - Philosophy of Re-enchantment” by Emanuele Coccia and Alessandro Michele (now only in Italian, with an English translation coming in Fall 2025) inspired me greatly and made me totally change my opinion about fashion and the object “dress.”
Each of us needs to feel at home to be well. The concept of "home" is intimately linked to a spiritual state of well-being. To feel protected, to feel welcomed, to feel understood, to feel free to be who we intimately feel we are, to feel oneself in essence, to feel authentic; to connect with the harmonious universe, with thought, with memories, with hope for the future, with one's roots; to get rid of fears, of appearance, of complacency, of defensive armor.
New World Symphony
Apr 18, 2024
This series was inspired to me by the fourth movement of the Dvorak’s New World Symphony. We live in a technologically advanced but emotionally primitive world; a world in which living and feeling are so separate that, instead of helping each other,
A paper map is much more than a projection of physical geography, because, once you have visited the places represented there, a paper map allows you to create an emotional map of the place, in which to note down impressions, memories, smells, noises, events, meetings, surprises, unexpected.
Story of a lost love
Mar 26, 2024
There is nothing more heartbreaking than a love lost without having had the chance to be born. I'll tell you a love story like those you will surely have seen in some films, a heartbreaking and at the same time tender and moving love story.
Two important premises: I am the father of a 17-year-old teenager, so the concepts on which I reflect are not only thought of a theoretical point of view but are continually tested in the pragmatic daily life of a family that continues to think and convey positivity about the future to give to our children.
Astral Journey
Dec 22, 2023
What will be the consequences of the world we are building? I often ask myself this question and immediately afterwards I say to myself that who knows, my age, which is no longer so young, leads me to have a pessimistic vision of the future.
The Elephant Man
Nov 15, 2023
The acceptance of diversity in our society is still a pending task. There are still corners of society and movements of thought that are unfortunately coming back into vogue, that hypocritically fill their mouths with do-goodism but who still think that “the different ones” are "waste" from our society.
A wedding in the South of Italy
Oct 20, 2023
My roots proudly lie in the deep South of Italy, precisely in Basilicata (or Lucania), a region of green mountains and arid limestone spaces, with two views of the sea, one on the Tyrrhenian Sea and the other on the Ionian Sea.
Florilegio
Sep 8, 2023
The life of a flower is short. One day of a flower corresponds roughly to ten human years. This is why flowers force us to confront the cruel fragility of life. Flowers therefore imply much more than their beauty; they remind us that even in decay the time of life passes.
Waitography, the photography of waiting
Jun 16, 2023
In my previous article “Photography or Promptography” I talked about how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the visual language; how it is making us question axioms that seemed consolidated and how it is causing a schism in the photographic world. In this article I will talk about Waitography, that is, the photography of waiting.
The “photographic language” has evolved over time, moving ever further away from photography and, at the same time, it has fed back into the concept of photography in such a way that no one knows how to distinguish where one concept begins and the other ends. The images obtained using AI are intended to further expand the concept of photographic language
They are usually called artist studios: they are the laboratories and ateliers where artists carry out their creative activities, but also their craftsmanship and the boring but necessary work to ensure that a work sees the light.
The ancient Greeks contrasted the cosmos with chaos. The cosmos is the universe understood as a harmonious and ordered complex, that is in contrast with the chaos of matter. They said that before Chaos there was nothingness; therefore, Chaos is the personification of the primordial state of "emptiness"
AImagine: the new Era of making Art ?
Feb 3, 2023
We are experiencing a turning point; indeed, I would say a revolution in the artistic disciplines, especially those relating to visual art; it is the beginning of a new Era in which the current paradigms will no longer be valid, in which reality will be questioned or modified through alternative realities.
Byzantine connection
Dec 16, 2022
I did not know or at least I had never thought about it, but there is an incredible and surprising connection between the world-famous mosaics of Ravenna and the arbëresh of San Paolo Albanese, a very small village in Basilicata, completely unknown to tourists who visit the Italy.
Templar Geographies
Nov 4, 2022
Portugal is for me a country of cracked and yet brilliant beauty; when you are there, you breathe its decadent and yet amazing grandeur; a lifestyle that is reluctant to emergencies and even to fashionable is perceived; impervious to the most vulgar novelties. The liturgies of haste and appearance there seem to be somewhat deflated.
Cronorifugio
Sep 16, 2022
Light and time. These two essential concepts in photography are also fundamental for our being and in our life. Here and now, I feel that the time has come to talk about the time.
UFO – Unidentified Flowers Outfit
Mar 11, 2022
In its evolutionary path, humanity has always been characterized by the desire for knowledge. This desire, this curiosity, this drive has undoubtedly been one of the main engines of progress.
The praise of slowness
Jan 21, 2022
Reading the book "The Secret Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben, undoubtedly marked a before and after in my life and in my way of relating to botany and the plant universe.
ICM Photography and COP26
Oct 29, 2021
Climate Change is unfortunately a concrete and dramatic reality. Yet a large part of the world population, however, does not admit it
The title of this article I have borrowed by Ferran Adriá. In 2015 I visited a groundbreaking and innovative exhibition in Madrid at the Fundación Telefónica, “Auditing the creative process” by the Catalan master chef.
Invisible Cities
Sep 2, 2021
More than a year has passed since when, a virus with a size between 50 and 140 nanometers has put humanity in check and especially our way of life.
Psychography: psychology and photography
Jun 18, 2021
Throughout this long year that is being marked by the rhythms and restrictions associated with the pandemic, many of us have realized that having a creative tool such as photography in our “backpack” has often been our anchor of salvation.
An image only makes sense if it "sees the light" and if it is seen by someone. Otherwise it would be just a visual thought. In my opinion, the best way to bring an image to life is through a book.
Solitude and Loneliness
May 7, 2021
In English there are two words to identify the two types of loneliness that can be felt: loneliness, which defines a state of negative solitude, normally imposed; solitude, which defines the state of being alone, but not feeling alone.
Doubt and nostalgia for light
Mar 26, 2021
We have to doubt a lot, always, more and more often. Do not take anything for granted; we must not hang on to questions, waiting for others to give us an answer; we must always seek our own answer.
ICM photography is a type of photography that is done with instinct, you are never sure of what you will get, but at the moment of shooting, I know what I would like to achieve. According to this idea, I consequently move the camera and set the times and diaphragms.
Lockdown Flowers
Dec 19, 2020
If a year ago, anyone had told us that we would count almost a million and a half deaths from a pandemic and just over 55 million infected, we would have called him crazy or at least, qualified as someone who brought bad luck.
“Genius Loci” of emptied Europe
Nov 6, 2020
Genius Loci is a Latin expression that indicates the “essence of the place”, its unique and indistinguishable nature. The Genius Loci is the bearer of identity.
Everyone knows Cartier-Bresson's attention to social issues. I did not imagine that in this strange and atypical summer I would have stumbled upon a jewel in a remote corner of the world.
We live in a technologically advanced but emotionally primitive world; a world in which we often keep the feeling and the living totally at a distance which, instead of mutually supporting and helping, they hinder each other.