In summer 2024 it was the first time I visited Australia (…well, of course just a tiny part of it…). It happened for a combination of circumstances that I am not going to explain here, but let’s just say it was not one of those trips planned months in advance with a clear purpose. It was more of a decision that took shape quickly, with just enough time to organize something reasonable.

A few months after my long weekend in Osaka, I found myself once again on a plane to Japan, but this time the destination was Tokyo, which I visited my first time in 2017. Tokyo has been described countless times already and by much more competent people than me, so I’m not going to spend too many words to say what kind of city it is, its lights, shops, people making its streets so crowded, etc.

When I travel, I always try to push my photography a little beyond the classic tourist snapshots. This makes a good excuse to talk about Japan, a place that in some ways shares the same energy of Hong Kong, even though with different personality.

There’s an area on Hong Kong Island called North Point. Most people know it because of the so called “Monster Building” (infamous for some, iconic and instagrammable for people not living there). It’s a cluster of old residential blocks stacked so tightly together that they look like a single enormous structure.

Editing, for me, has never been about transforming a photo into something else, but I rather think it’s an instrument to help the photo become what it already was. I know this might sound vague, but the idea is simple: when I look at one of my images, I am asking how I can remove what stands between the image and what I remember seeing.

There’s an area on Hong Kong Island called North Point. Most people know it because of the so called “Monster Building” (infamous for some, iconic and instagrammable for people not living there). It’s a cluster of old residential blocks stacked so tightly together that they look like a single enormous structure.

There’s an area on Hong Kong Island called North Point. Most people know it because of the so called “Monster Building” (infamous for some, iconic and instagrammable for people not living there). It’s a cluster of old residential blocks stacked so tightly together that they look like a single enormous structure.

I always liked the idea that buildings can be read. Not in a literal way of course, but if you slow down and really look at it, architecture starts telling you stories. You just need to learn how to listen, or better how to see.

Many people think that with multiple exposure you only create visually complicated photos, layering chaos or having messy results. Well, to be honest I have to say that sometimes they are right. But who said that multiple exposure cannot be minimalist? Who decided that layering images automatically means confusion? Actually, I often try to play with the opposite concept. If used with intention, multiple exposure can also become a surprisingly powerful tool for minimalist phot