Daniela’s house
Daniela’s house. Sicily.
Daria’s cave
@magnumphotos photographer Alex Majoli shows my @burnmagazine team Daria Birang’s studio in a cave here in Scicli. Daria is Alex’ life partner and an artist/curator. Alex and Paolo Pellegrin and Diego Orlando and Adam Bloomberg have all set up shop in Scicli. I can see why. Super charming town here in Sicily. My Magnum …
Cook
Scicli, Sicily. Lunchtime scene. Gennaro Renato, chef, at Baqqala restaurant and our assistant @leslis for NYTimes Magazine story in southern Italy. Both are from Naples where our story begins. Off to Malta tomorrow. I can’t show any of the work I’m actually shooting here. So my iPhone snaps will have to suffice for a …
Scicli
Red Vespa. Scicli, Sicily. I continue my journey through southern Italy collaborating with author @_tejucole and @kathyryan1 at the New York Times Magazine. I still am not at liberty to reveal the nature of our story. Yet stay tuned as I move soon to Malta. Yet I am pretty much taking the day off …
Pietro
Pietro, 1, dreams on a Sicilian rooftop in the mid-day sun. A fresh sea breeze keeping him cool. Pietro is the son of Simone and Alessandra Bonadeo who run a bed and breakfast here in Siracusa, one of my favorite towns in Italy.
Coffee
Even though I tend to travel, oddly I am very much a creature of habit. I don’t move much whenever I land. I’ll always find a favorite coffee shop, as here in Siracusa, and come back every day. Of course I make this decision based on a good photo location. This one is a virtual …
Sicily
I’ve just arrived in glorious Sicily and stepped out on my patio to make this picture. This is Siracusa where I haven’t been for several years, yet always thought was magic. I havn’t changed my mind even though I haven’t even walked around yet. I’ve mentioned before I always shoot something right away simply …
Run
Naples. June 25, 2016. Novelist Teju Cole @_tejucole is an intellectual and brilliant writer, yet I had no idea of his athletic prowess. I love surprises. In a spontaneous 50 yard dash, with some young boys I was photographing playing soccer, he handily won the race. Teju is 41 and had no time to warm …
Museum
As I wandered through the Galleria Borghese yesterday viewing Bernini, Tiziano, Caravaggio, Raffaello, and other masters of painting and sculptors of the late 16th century I came upon these young people buried in their phones. All of us, me included, can be hypnotized by our phones. A modern day tech/cultural phenomena. There is just no …