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Prints { 146 images } Created 10 Apr 2024

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Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40. Frame in the picture are example.
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  • Shanghai Ruins series
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • At the Felix Bar, Hong Kong.
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  • Work in progress in Piazza Gae Aulenti, Milano.
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  • UniCredit Pavilion è il nuovo spazio di incontro polifunzionale di UniCredit in Piazza Gae Aulenti. Ecosostenibile perchè è completamente indipendente dal punto di vista energetico grazie ai suoi 300 pannelli solari. Particolare del palazzo è che è privo di fondamenta.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Ingresso alla pista del Lingotto.
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  • Clifton Beach, the beach has attractions for families and tourists, including beachside horse and camel rides, amusement parks, restaurants, and swimming in the Arabian Sea. Many of the boys renting horses are Afghans fled their country. The beach is crowded of IDPs who collect money to survive before returning to the valleys where the Pakistani army is fighting the Taliban. *** General Caption *** Muttahida Quami Movement, generally known as MQM , ("United National Movement" in English) is an progressive liberal secular centre left party in Pakistan (initially on quasi-socialist lines) founded on 11 June 1978 as a student organization of "muhajir" (immigrants), the  All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organization or APMSO, at the University of Karachi by Altaf Hussain who continues to remain its chief. Supposedly it represent the majority of immigrants who migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947. APMSO then gave birth to the Muhajir Quami Movement (MQM) on March 1984. From 1992 to 1994, the MQM was the target of the Pakistan Army's Operation Cleanup leaving hundreds of civilians dead. On July 26, 1997, MQM officially removed the term Muhajir from its name, and replaced it with Muttahida ("United"). In 1992, after the operation "Clean up", there was the split with key members of the party: the MQM-H or MQM Haqiqi, the "real" MQM, was born. Since then have not stopped the target killing from both sides. The target killing is getting intensified in Karachi with the military’s ongoing counterinsurgency operation in Swat and Malakand. The MQM party is, maybe, the worst enemy of the taliban in Pakistan.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is located on the eastern side of the main island HonshÅ«. An estimated 12.79 million people live in Tokyo, while in the Greater Tokyo Area, the world's most populous metropolitan area, leave 35 million people, one of the world's largest metropolitan economy. *** Local Caption *** Geisha in the subway.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Candy cotton sellers in Kadikoy.
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  • Chungking Mansions series
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  • Balloons sellers in Kadikoy.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Ferry waiting room. Landau Island, Hong Kong. *** General Caption *** Hong Kong - referred to officially as the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" by the Chinese government - was under British administration from 1842 until a transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Today, the region operates with a great degree of autonomy under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provides for semi-autonomous status until at least 2047. Hong Kong's sovereignty is protected by the declaration except in areas regarding national defense and foreign relations, which are overseen by China's national government in Beijing. The region's status as China's wealthiest urban center is owed in large part to the nature of its highly capitalist economy, which boasts free markets, low taxation and government non-intervention. An important center for international finance and trade, Hong Kong - which lacks natural resources and has little arable land - operates via an economy dominated by services, which accounts for over 90 percent of the region's gross domestic product.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Puglia, pool.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Green ceiling
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  • Nascosto.
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  • The Ramoji Film City hosts on average four thousands people a day. Tourists are attracted to visit the sets of their favorite movies and spend a day in a huge amusement park. *** General Caption *** The Telugu film industry is the second biggest film industry (sometimes called Tollywood) based in Hyderabad. Telugu is the second largest spoken language in India. After Bollywood, more movies are produced here every year, in Telugu as in any other language. The Ramoji Film City, founded by Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, better known as Ramoji Rao, an Indian businessman and media entrepreneur, also has what is claimed to be the largest film studio in the world. The Film City, opened in 1996, spread over 2,000 acres of land studded with hills, vales and lakes, has few parallels as both a tourist attraction and major film-making facility. The city encompasses massive buildings, gardens and other sets suitable for filming movies. Inside the city are complete facilities for pre-production, production and post-production work on movies. In addition, there are theme parks, rides and other attractions, opportunities for shopping and dining. There are three hotels inside the city catering to various budgets and travelers can easily spend a weekend or more with their families and not tire of the place. The Indians of Andhra Pradesh, indeed, show an uncommon passion for the movies and theatres are rarely empty. Telugu film industry is not hit by recession. For many, films are a part of their culture. Despite the fact that ticket rates have gone up, people are still flocking theatres and often the Indians of Andhra Pradesh go to the theatre three times or more a weeks. Perhaps, as somebody said, they try to escape from reality.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • A net of 15 islands in the heart of the South Pacific spread over an area the size of India with a population no bigger than a small New Zealand country town, 14,000 souls. These Polynesians people have their own language and government and diverse culture with significant differences between each island. Despite some 70,000 visitors a year to the capital island  *** Local Caption *** Fishermen fishing with low tide next to the reef.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Clifton Beach, the beach has attractions for families and tourists, including beachside horse and camel rides, amusement parks, restaurants, and swimming in the Arabian Sea. Many of the boys renting horses are Afghans fled their country. The beach is crowded of IDPs who collect money to survive before returning to the valleys where the Pakistani army is fighting the Taliban. Afghan with his horse on the beach. *** General Caption *** Muttahida Quami Movement, generally known as MQM , ("United National Movement" in English) is an progressive liberal secular centre left party in Pakistan (initially on quasi-socialist lines) founded on 11 June 1978 as a student organization of "muhajir" (immigrants), the  All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organization or APMSO, at the University of Karachi by Altaf Hussain who continues to remain its chief. Supposedly it represent the majority of immigrants who migrated from India to Pakistan in 1947. APMSO then gave birth to the Muhajir Quami Movement (MQM) on March 1984. From 1992 to 1994, the MQM was the target of the Pakistan Army's Operation Cleanup leaving hundreds of civilians dead. On July 26, 1997, MQM officially removed the term Muhajir from its name, and replaced it with Muttahida ("United"). In 1992, after the operation "Clean up", there was the split with key members of the party: the MQM-H or MQM Haqiqi, the "real" MQM, was born. Since then have not stopped the target killing from both sides. The target killing is getting intensified in Karachi with the military’s ongoing counterinsurgency operation in Swat and Malakand. The MQM party is, maybe, the worst enemy of the taliban in Pakistan.
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  • Ingresso alla pista del Lingotto.
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  • Piazza del Duomo.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Tienanmen square stairs. On the left a security man.
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  • Piazza del Duomo.
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  • Sailing.
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  • The Unicredit Tower with a height of 231 metres, is the tallest building in Italy. The building was designed by architect Cesar Pelli and it will serve as the new headquarters of UniCredit Bank. The Unicredit Tower is part of a larger development of new residential and business structures in Milan's Porta Nuova district, near Porta Garibaldi railway station.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • The Unicredit Tower with a height of 231 metres, is the tallest building in Italy. The building was designed by architect Cesar Pelli and it will serve as the new headquarters of UniCredit Bank. The Unicredit Tower is part of a larger development of new residential and business structures in Milan's Porta Nuova district, near Porta Garibaldi railway station.<br />
At the heart of the buildings of the Tower Unicredit, is placed square Gae Aulenti. This also designed by architect Cesar Pelli Argentina, in addition to the towers, it is a circular plaza with 100 meters in diameter, raised by 6 meters above the street level.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Hong Kong skyscraper in Central.
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  • Shanghai Ruins Series
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  • Puglia, pool.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • As Moscow's urban landscape continues to change, with soaring skyscrapers piercing the city skyline and restoration on historic buildings becoming more-and-more common, foreign curiosity of the Russian capital often focuses on the metropolitan center rather than the city's outskirts. I used the last stops on the city's metro system as a connect-the-dots perimeter map, investigating the fringes of the city, venturing off no more than 450 feet from each subway entrance to produce a photographic sketch of the "edges of Moscow." *** Local Caption *** Altufevo station. Metro line n.9 (north).
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • As Moscow's urban landscape continues to change, with soaring skyscrapers piercing the city skyline and restoration on historic buildings becoming more-and-more common, foreign curiosity of the Russian capital often focuses on the metropolitan center rather than the city's outskirts. I used the last stops on the city's metro system as a connect-the-dots perimeter map, investigating the fringes of the city, venturing off no more than 450 feet from each subway entrance to produce a photographic sketch of the "edges of Moscow." *** Local Caption *** Mar'ino station metro line n.10 (south).
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Two boys play table tennis in restructured Hutong in Fanjian district.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • Hong Kong - referred to officially as the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" by the Chinese government - was under British administration from 1842 until a transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Today, the region operates with a great degree of autonomy under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provides for semi-autonomous status until at least 2047. Hong Kong's sovereignty is protected by the declaration except in areas regarding national defense and foreign relations, which are overseen by China's national government in Beijing. The region's status as China's wealthiest urban center is owed in large part to the nature of its highly capitalist economy, which boasts free markets, low taxation and government non-intervention. An important center for international finance and trade, Hong Kong - which lacks natural resources and has little arable land - operates via an economy dominated by services, which accounts for over 90 percent of the region's gross domestic product. *** Local Caption *** Mirador Mansion, Kowloon, with his low budget hotel and taylor's lab  is one of a few old high rises that remain among the new development and high end hotels that appear to be taking over the area.  Comparing the dirty concrete facads of Mirador and it's neighbor, Cheungking Mansions, with the swanky department stores, Holiday Inn, and the "New Heart of the City" going up across the street, it wonder how long the budget establishments will last.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • The fast developments of the city leave temporary traces that as well fast disappear to make room to new skyscrapers.<br />
The typical Shanghai home, the "shikumen", build by French at the beginning of the last century are razing because the value land.<br />
In Anfu Lu, area that just join the status of –center city”, 1200 families are send away to make room for a skyscraper. Around seventy families do not want give up despite the skyscraper company offer them as money as 12 years average gain of a Chinese employers: 120.000.00 Yuan. A woman still living there, 75-years-old, bought the right to live there for 1 (one) Yuan (10 cents of —) in the 50's and less than 50 Yuan for year. She say the money are not enough to buy a home in the same area and she do not want go far away.
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  • The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. It connects China and Pakistan across the Karakoram mountain range, through the Khunjerab Pass, at an elevation of 4,693 metres.<br />
It connects China's Xinjiang region with Pakistan's Gilgit–Baltistan and Khyber regions.<br />
It was told me that there was a new route for Chinese goods. A new route that would allowed it to jump all over the South China Sea and arrive directly on the Arabian Sea, to the Gwadar port.<br />
It was a story that there was no, actually.<br />
Maybe one day there will be this route. But it did not exist when I did it, in 2009.<br />
Just few trucks climbed it and an Indian trader, who was traveling with me, told me that his goods would have paid much less traveling by sea from Shenzhen, rather than overland through Xinjiang and the KKH. And it would take even less time.<br />
It was a nice trip, however. In one of the most remote places on earth. You could hear the echo of the attacks of the Taliban, we had to wait a couple of hours to release the road to a car exploded on a bridge. At press office in Islamabad they told me that it was impossible to visit Gwadar. So I went to Karachi, where I made a reportage about the secular party MQM, then published "Ventiquattro".
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • The Ramoji Film City hosts on average four thousands people a day. Tourists are attracted to visit the sets of their favorite movies and spend a day in a huge amusement park. *** General Caption *** The Telugu film industry is the second biggest film industry (sometimes called Tollywood) based in Hyderabad. Telugu is the second largest spoken language in India. After Bollywood, more movies are produced here every year, in Telugu as in any other language. The Ramoji Film City, founded by Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, better known as Ramoji Rao, an Indian businessman and media entrepreneur, also has what is claimed to be the largest film studio in the world. The Film City, opened in 1996, spread over 2,000 acres of land studded with hills, vales and lakes, has few parallels as both a tourist attraction and major film-making facility. The city encompasses massive buildings, gardens and other sets suitable for filming movies. Inside the city are complete facilities for pre-production, production and post-production work on movies. In addition, there are theme parks, rides and other attractions, opportunities for shopping and dining. There are three hotels inside the city catering to various budgets and travelers can easily spend a weekend or more with their families and not tire of the place. The Indians of Andhra Pradesh, indeed, show an uncommon passion for the movies and theatres are rarely empty. Telugu film industry is not hit by recession. For many, films are a part of their culture. Despite the fact that ticket rates have gone up, people are still flocking theatres and often the Indians of Andhra Pradesh go to the theatre three times or more a weeks. Perhaps, as somebody said, they try to escape from reality.
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  • Bus station in Kadikoy.
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  • La separazione, i figli e l’abbandono. <br />
Un'altra casa, un altro quotidiano, un altro posto. <br />
Il lavoro scomparso, i conti sbagliati e gli stimoli persi. <br />
E non sapere cosa fare.<br />
Un nuovo figlio, le relazioni difficili, l’amore e il desidero, l’equilibrio precario e inesistente. Le paure, i timori e lo spavento.<br />
Arrangiarsi, accontentarsi, fare altro, sopravvivere, un altra vita, un altro se stesso. <br />
La dignità, l’orgoglio e la pazienza.<br />
Vagare, forse persi, magari solo alla ricerca, ancora, di se stessi. <br />
Speranza e futuro, parole sognate.
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  • It continues to build, although there are thousands of vacant apartments. Fishermen are hoping to catch something.<br />
*** General Caption ***<br />
China became an urban society in 2011, when for the first time the number of city dwellers exceeded the rural population, indeed, the 51% of the Chinese population live in cities, as in 1979, at Deng Xiaoping's time, it was 19%. A report from the McKinsey Global Institute projected that between 2009 and 2025, 350 million people would move from China’s rural parts to its eastern cities. <br />
The migrations are expected and driven towards the city of second and third size. These new cities, which are often zoned as new districts of existing municipalities, are built up from scratch, topped off with public works infrastructure, schools, government buildings, stores, malls, massive amounts of housing, universities, and sometimes even stadiums all before a single resident moves in.<br />
The benefits of this urban development strategy are that an entire city can be built on a single, fully integrated plan, but the risks are absolute: if the project fails, an entire city goes under. Nowadays the Kangbashi district, built on the north bank of the Wulan Mulun River, planned to accommodate a population over of one million, is home to a lonely 10,000 people – leaving more than 98% of this 355-square kilometer site either under construction or abandoned altogether. Housing prices have fallen from $1,100 to $470 per square foot, over the last five years.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • The two "leaning towers" designed by Dominique Perrault in Rho.
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  • Crossroad in Central, Hong Kong island. *** General Caption *** Hong Kong - referred to officially as the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" by the Chinese government - was under British administration from 1842 until a transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Today, the region operates with a great degree of autonomy under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provides for semi-autonomous status until at least 2047. Hong Kong's sovereignty is protected by the declaration except in areas regarding national defense and foreign relations, which are overseen by China's national government in Beijing. The region's status as China's wealthiest urban center is owed in large part to the nature of its highly capitalist economy, which boasts free markets, low taxation and government non-intervention. An important center for international finance and trade, Hong Kong - which lacks natural resources and has little arable land - operates via an economy dominated by services, which accounts for over 90 percent of the region's gross domestic product.
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  • Kangbashi's ghost town series
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  • Shangri La hotel in the Pacific Place, in Admiralty, completely renew by the British architect Thomas Heatherwick.
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  • Rush hour.
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  • As Moscow's urban landscape continues to change, with soaring skyscrapers piercing the city skyline and restoration on historic buildings becoming more-and-more common, foreign curiosity of the Russian capital often focuses on the metropolitan center rather than the city's outskirts. I used the last stops on the city's metro system as a connect-the-dots perimeter map, investigating the fringes of the city, venturing off no more than 450 feet from each subway entrance to produce a photographic sketch of the "edges of Moscow." *** Local Caption *** Komsomolskaya station. Metro line n.5 (circle).
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  • The Nan Pu bridge.
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  • In a cab.
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  • Works exhibited at the Shanghart Gallery in Moganshan Rd. along the Suzhou river.
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  • Il primo inverno, un grande freddo.<br />
<br />
La separazione, i figli e l’abbandono. <br />
Un'altra casa, un altro quotidiano, un altro posto. <br />
Il lavoro scomparso, i conti sbagliati e gli stimoli persi. <br />
E non sapere cosa fare.<br />
Un nuovo figlio, le relazioni difficili, l’amore e il desidero, l’equilibrio precario e inesistente. Le paure, i timori e lo spavento.<br />
Arrangiarsi, accontentarsi, fare altro, sopravvivere, un altra vita, un altro se stesso. <br />
La dignità, l’orgoglio e la pazienza.<br />
Vagare, forse persi, magari solo alla ricerca, ancora, di se stessi. <br />
Speranza e futuro, parole sognate.
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  • Photographs sized 20x30 printed on fine-art paper (100% cotton, baryta paper) in a handcrafted wooden frame sized 30x40.
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  • A table set up for the Kurban Festival in a private home. The Kurban Festival "Festival of Sacrifice" is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, but instead was able to sacrifice a ram (by God's command). At times of the Kurban festival, more than hundreds thousand Muslims come to Id Kah Mosque to pray and celebrate. Traditional Uyghur music sounds from the minarets and people perform the "sama" dance in front of the mosque. As tradition, each family would sacrifice a domestic animal, such as a sheep, goat, cow, or camel, by slaughter. The family eats one third, another third is given to other relatives, friends or neighbors, and the other third is given to the poor as a gift. It is indeed habit to move from house to house for a short visit sitting at a set up table. *** General Caption *** The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China's northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by a government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda. Kashgar's old city has survived the centuries, and remains an important Islamic cultural center for the Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang. Two-thirds of Kashgar’s Old City will be bulldozed in the next few weeks under a government plan to "modernize" the area. According to the nongovernmental Beijing Cultural Protection Center, the densely packed houses and narrow lanes of old Kashgar are the best-preserved examples of a traditional Islamic city in all of China and “From a cultural and historical perspective, this plan of theirs is stupid,” said Wu Lili, the managing director of the BCPC, “From the perspective of the locals, it’s cruel.” City officials have been moving a number of families out of Kashgar's city center, saying they need to rebuild old, dangerous houses and improve infrastructure. In total, the government says it plans to
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  • During the Kurban Festival in every corner of the city, small groups of Uighurs selling and buying sheeps. The Kurban Festival "Festival of Sacrifice" is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, but instead was able to sacrifice a ram (by God's command). At times of the Kurban festival, more than hundreds thousand Muslims come to Id Kah Mosque to pray and celebrate. Traditional Uyghur music sounds from the minarets and people perform the "sama" dance in front of the mosque. As tradition, each family would sacrifice a domestic animal, such as a sheep, goat, cow, or camel, by slaughter. The family eats one third, another third is given to other relatives, friends or neighbors, and the other third is given to the poor as a gift. It is indeed habit to move from house to house for a short visit sitting at a set up table. *** General Caption *** The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China's northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by a government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda. Kashgar's old city has survived the centuries, and remains an important Islamic cultural center for the Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang. Two-thirds of Kashgar’s Old City will be bulldozed in the next few weeks under a government plan to "modernize" the area. According to the nongovernmental Beijing Cultural Protection Center, the densely packed houses and narrow lanes of old Kashgar are the best-preserved examples of a traditional Islamic city in all of China and “From a cultural and historical perspective, this plan of theirs is stupid,” said Wu Lili, the managing director of the BCPC, “From the perspective of the locals, it’s cruel.” City officials have been moving a number of families out of Kashgar's city center, saying they need to rebuild old, dangerous houses and improve infrastru
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  • Kebab seller.*** General Caption *** The ancient Silk Road trading hub of Kashgar, in China's northwest Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is being threatened by a government redevelopment plan that some say has a hidden political agenda. Kashgar's old city has survived the centuries, and remains an important Islamic cultural center for the Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic group living in Xinjiang. Two-thirds of Kashgar’s Old City will be bulldozed in the next few weeks under a government plan to "modernize" the area. According to the nongovernmental Beijing Cultural Protection Center, the densely packed houses and narrow lanes of old Kashgar are the best-preserved examples of a traditional Islamic city in all of China and “From a cultural and historical perspective, this plan of theirs is stupid,” said Wu Lili, the managing director of the BCPC, “From the perspective of the locals, it’s cruel.” City officials have been moving a number of families out of Kashgar's city center, saying they need to rebuild old, dangerous houses and improve infrastructure. In total, the government says it plans to renovate or reconstruct more than 5 million square meters of old homes and resettle some 45,000 households. Some Uighurs argue the demolition is part of an orchestrated campaign by the Chinese government to destroy Uighur culture. "The Kashgar project appears to be a tool to assimilate Uyghurs and to actually stifle peaceful dissent by putting old city residents from an organic living arrangement into a regimented, government-organized living arrangement. The Chinese authorities are able to monitor the activity of any peaceful dissent among Uyghurs,” they say. There are also concerns about how people will earn a living once they are moved far from the centre of tourism – the government plan apparently does not include any mention of job creation. Disappearing the old city, tourism will disappear.
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  • The Ramoji Film City hosts on average four thousands people a day. Tourists are attracted to visit the sets of their favorite movies and spend a day in a huge amusement park. *** General Caption *** The Telugu film industry is the second biggest film industry (sometimes called Tollywood) based in Hyderabad. Telugu is the second largest spoken language in India. After Bollywood, more movies are produced here every year, in Telugu as in any other language. The Ramoji Film City, founded by Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, better known as Ramoji Rao, an Indian businessman and media entrepreneur, also has what is claimed to be the largest film studio in the world. The Film City, opened in 1996, spread over 2,000 acres of land studded with hills, vales and lakes, has few parallels as both a tourist attraction and major film-making facility. The city encompasses massive buildings, gardens and other sets suitable for filming movies. Inside the city are complete facilities for pre-production, production and post-production work on movies. In addition, there are theme parks, rides and other attractions, opportunities for shopping and dining. There are three hotels inside the city catering to various budgets and travelers can easily spend a weekend or more with their families and not tire of the place. The Indians of Andhra Pradesh, indeed, show an uncommon passion for the movies and theatres are rarely empty. Telugu film industry is not hit by recession. For many, films are a part of their culture. Despite the fact that ticket rates have gone up, people are still flocking theatres and often the Indians of Andhra Pradesh go to the theatre three times or more a weeks. Perhaps, as somebody said, they try to escape from reality.
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  • Ejin Horo, Ghost City
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  • Ejin Horo, ghost city series
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  • Ordos, ghost city series
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  • Ordos, ghost city series
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  • Tiantan Park. Early morning Thai Chi training lesson.
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  • Typical local ferry that connects Kowloon to Central. *** General Caption *** Hong Kong - referred to officially as the "Hong Kong Special Administrative Region" by the Chinese government - was under British administration from 1842 until a transfer of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China in 1997. Today, the region operates with a great degree of autonomy under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which provides for semi-autonomous status until at least 2047. Hong Kong's sovereignty is protected by the declaration except in areas regarding national defense and foreign relations, which are overseen by China's national government in Beijing. The region's status as China's wealthiest urban center is owed in large part to the nature of its highly capitalist economy, which boasts free markets, low taxation and government non-intervention. An important center for international finance and trade, Hong Kong - which lacks natural resources and has little arable land - operates via an economy dominated by services, which accounts for over 90 percent of the region's gross domestic product.
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