Roma

Everytime we have the chance to spend some days in Rome we feel overwhelmed with its beauty. 

La Grande Bellezza gifts you with some breathtaking views, the coolest restaurants and the best food, and some quirky shops that seem to have been there forever. Guess everyone sees Rome differently, but for us it has the warm, earthy colors of sunset and the shadows of the huge trees you find everywhere. It's yellow, tiny cars and sunny outdoor coffee places, it's tourists everywhere, and silence in the churches. 

Hope you like "our" Rome. 

PNW - The great Pacific Northwest on Film

Our favorite photographers come from the Pacific Northwest.

One of our fav tv series was filmed in Washington State.

Our fav magazine, and all the slow life inspiration we love so much, was crated there, and their HQ is even more gorgeous than you would expect.

And then, there is a magical place, we always dreamed of visiting. 

So here you are our travel reportage. Oregon and Washington States, and a stopover in the beautiful Chicago, who has the best film shop ever seen. (Almost) everything was shot on film, unless it was too windy ( oh, Chicago winds!), cold or rainy. Because a slow, meaningful life means savoring every bite of it, with no hurry, or pressure, even the one that forces you to constantly check pictures on a screen, after you click the shutter. Hope you can enjoy it. Slowly, of course.

Shot with Contax 645 + Carl Zeiss 80mm f/2 + Kodak Portra 400 + Kodak Portra 800. Dev & Scanned by Carmencita Film Lab

At times, when the contax was not handy, or it was too cold or rainy we also shot digital, with a  Nikon D800 + 50mm f/1.4. Here you are some more pics:


Storytellers - Serena

Storytellers - chapter 1. 

Questa serie è un tributo a tutte le persone meravigliose che incontriamo sulla nostra strada. Persone che lasciano un segno, con la loro creatività, il loro stile di vita, la loro anima. Una manciata di foto e un assaggio della loro storia. Questo è ciò che vi daremo, perché possiate esserne ispirati anche voi.

Abbiamo conosciuto Serena a Parigi, cinque anni fa. Intelligente, bellissima e affamata di vita. L'abbiamo incontrata ancora quest'anno, sempre a Parigi, dopo che ha passato gli ultimi due anni in giro per il mondo in autostop.

È una viaggiatrice, una cittadina del mondo, ma dovunque sia, torna sempre al suo primo amore, la "sua" città.

This series is a tribute, to all the wonderful people we meet on the road. People who blow our mind with their creativity, their way of living, their souls. Few photos, and a glimpse into their story. This is what you will have, to be inspired too.

We met Serena in Paris, five years ago. She was smart, beautiful and hungry for life. We met her again this year, always in Paris, after she spent two years hitch-hiking through the world. 

She's a traveller, a world citizen, but wherever she is, she always comes back to her first love, her city.

“It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator. Paris is the cradle of artificial births. Rocking here in the cradle each one slips back into his soil: one dreams back to Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Minsk. Vienna is never more Vienna than in Paris. Everything is raised to apotheosis. The cradle gives up its babes and new ones take their places. You can read here on the walls where Zola lived and Balzac and Dante and Strindberg and everybody who ever was anything. Everyone has lived here some time or another. Nobody dies here…”
— Henri Miller - Tropic of Cancer

Find Serena, her travels and photo blog here: http://www.artificialstage.net/


Love Etc. - festival de mariage in Paris

A wedding fair in our favorite city. We couldn't say no. 

At Love Etc. at La Cour du Marais, in Paris, we found endless inspiration, amazing wedding vendors and new lovely friends. Be inspired with these few shots and thank you to the great team of Made in You who organized the event. See you next year in Paris!