Expocasa 2012
Last weekend I visited this year's edition of Expocasa, a household, furniture design and house decor salon held in Turin. While I was there a couple of things caught my eye so I decided to take a few shots to finally update this blog as the last post was almost six months ago...time seems to fly by! On the section which I found to be the most interesting was the one regarding the toBE[eco], a competition based around possible designs of recyclable, sustainable and expressive objects for our everyday life. For more info you can visit: http://expocasa.it/toBEeco/ (unfortunately it doesn't seem to be available in English). I hope you enjoy the shots!
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm
A bite at the Big Apple
The earth and the sky and the motion and the Gods
Last semester, during one of my courses at the University of Brighton, I had to choose what I thought was an iconic building of the '60s-'70s and write a 3000 word essay on it. My choice fell straight away on a church that I had passed in front of several times and had always caught my eye but I had never had the chance to visit it or learn more about it: the church of S. Giovanni Battista, better known as the Chiesa sull'Autostrada, located at the junction between the Autostrada del Sole and the Firenze-Mare highway on the outskirts of Florence. So, during my Christmas break I went to visit it and was litteraly left without words. The Architect, Giovanni Michelucci, wanted everything in the structure to be alive, to breathe in a continuous movement and changing with the wind, the light and all climate changes..and he sure did it!
"The church was designed with the Autostrada foremost in mind, forming a continuum with the road network so as to suggest the need for a natural break. As a result it led Michelucci to conceive of a building without an end that would form a meeting place for travelers, so that the building's conformation would allow, suggest and be the cause of the opportunity for meeting: this was important for Michelucci in stimulating introspection and an understanding of man's place in society. In this sense it could be argued that Michelucci's idea of the church was not exactly the house of God's people but rather the house of all men, irrespective of their religion. The many allusions and the biblical symbolism translate from abstractions in tangible give the work a density and a plurality of meanings through its walls, pillars and roof."
(taken from my essay)
The last two pictures were taken in Fiesole, at the Fondazione Michelucci.
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm in December 2010.
The city of blinding lights
In August 2009 I went to Paris for a couple of days. I have to admit that I am one of the very few people who do not love Paris and I almost felt a little disappointed with it, probably because I had very high expectations as my last visit was more or less ten years ago. Nevertheless I enjoyed the city and took a couple of shots that turned out to be pretty good.
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm.
Turin
Round 1 of shots taken in Turin in the last 3 or 4 years. Enjoy!
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm and with my Sony DSC-T200
Nerola
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm in August 2010
The first photo in the set was used in a magazine ad for the San Biagio Olive Oil
Animalia
I'm sorry for the extremely long lack of updates but my laptop broke down. The good news is I just got a new one and, most importantly, here are some new photos! I took these in various places and at different times in the last few years using both my Cybershot and the Olympus DSLR.
Bavaria
I took these photos during an 8 day road trip in Germany to see the Bavarian castles, with stops in Füssen, Hohenschwangau, Neuschwanstein, Munchen, Linderhof, Meersburg and Konstanz. If you haven't been in the area I highly reccomend a visit as there are some truly stunning sights and very interesting spots, both cultural and natural.
All photos taken with my Olympus E-520 + Zuiko 14-42 mm and 40-150 mm in August 2010.
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