The 2015 edition of Basel Fasnacht started this morning at 4am with Morgestraich. Below are a few pictures just out of the camera. If you are interested in this major…
Travelling along the coast of Norway was an old dream. These days, it has come true. Without further ado, I will let you admire this country’s natural beauty.
The Museum of Design in Zürich (Museum für Gestaltung) presented a selection of colour photographs by renowned Swiss photographer René Burri. Simultaneously Phaidon published a book under the title “Impossible…
I have always been bemused (or sometimes amused) watching the associations created by advertising and marketing. Browsing a magazine is a good way to understand what I mean: an advert…
From 08 June to 25 August 2013, 170 photographs by Lewis Hine (1874-1940) were shown at the Museum of Photography in Winterthur (Switzerland). While in the past I had come…
Carnival time brings many surprises. Do you know of many local authorities willing to take the risk of putting their town on fire? Well, those of the town of Liestal…
In this exercise, I experimented the natural tendency to orient the framing of a photograph according to the shape of the main subject: horizontal or vertical. Previously, my general habit…
The aim of this exercise is to show how a different focal length influences a photographed scene. For this, I chose a brass sculpture by Swiss artist Bettina Eichin, “Dame…
For this exercise, the subject I chose was a sculpture (by Lorenz Balmer) located in one of Basel’s botanical gardens at sunrise. I focused on the top part of it.…
In a previous exercise, I observed how the shutter speed impacts a moving subject while holding the camera still (check this exercise). Now, the idea is to move the camera…
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