Photography and Other Stuff – Chapter 14

It’s the end of April and it’s cold. “Meanwhile, spring is slow in arriving” (“La primavera intanto, tarda ad arrivare”), said a beautiful Italian song from many years ago. In the last two weeks, however, I have returned to taking photos and have started to experiment with some ideas for a new series which I will tell you about shortly. Let’s go in order: last Saturday I held a lesson in my Street Photography workshop in Rome, for about a year in fact I have been giving these individual lessons to street enthusiasts and every time it is truly exciting, both for me and (I guess) for my students , we manage to have a stimulating exchange of opinions and it is nice to see how they put into practice the notions that I try to convey to them. In all of this, for me it is also an opportunity to take some photos and in the two hours on Saturday I managed to put together some nice images. I show you a selection below.

Photography and Other Stuff – Chapter 13

After a week spent in bed with a fever, I resumed my photography routine. I’m going out regularly but for the moment I don’t shoot much, I just observe the people around me without any particular need to take photos. At least for now. In fact, there are days when street photography seems almost an end in itself and, unless I find myself in front of some incredible scene, I prefer to preserve what I see with my eyes and not through the lens. So, in order not to lose contact with my street photography, I am getting back some photos taken in the last 15 years to put them together in an album that I have called “Postcards from Earth”. I think 15 years of Street Photography is a great achievement and I would like to collect the best of my collection in a zine or in a publication that can mark a point on my first 15 years of photography. I’m working on it, but I’m still trying to understand how to define it.

Photography and Other Stuff – Chapter 12

Sorry for the absence, I haven’t published a new post in over a month. As always happens, I had a period of downturn and I moved away from photography slightly to concentrate my efforts on other stuff (I’m writing a novel, in Italian, which should be released in the first months of 2025!). Not having a lot of time to dedicate to this space, which I however love very much, I have decided for the moment to use this feature, Photography and Other Stuff, as a sort of weekly diary to tell what happens in photography, both mine and perhaps in general . I hope it will be interesting, we’ll see.

Chinese New Year 2024

Welcome in the Year of the Dragon!
Like every year, yesterday I went to the Esquiline neighborhood, the Roman Chinatown, to attend the Chinese New Year celebrations. As always, it was a day full of colors and joy, music, dance and splendid choreography. I discovered that my Chinese zodiac sign is the Rooster. I like it. What is yours?

Anyway, yesterday I took some photos, here is a selection.

Street Photo Gallery 2: Winter

Let’s continue our mission to share good photography and connect other photographers. As I told you introducing the first gallery, my idea is to post on this blog a gallery every two weeks, everytime with a different subject. The first one was about Subways and I collect a bunch of beautiful images. This time, as you can read in the title, the gallery is about Winter, so I’m going to show you a series of photos, found in the vast ocean of internet, that could make you feel the cold and some chilly sensation (or warm, if winter is outside the scene!). As usual, I’ll open this new gallery with a picture I took some years ago in Roma. Winter is coming…

Alessio Trerotoli (Roma)

My Best Street Photos of 2023 (36 Photos)

As every year, I tried to select the best street photos I took in 2023. Just pure street photography, not Raindrop Blues nor Urban Melodies. I chose the photos according to my personal taste, so I’m not really sure about my selection (I’m not a great editor of myself!). But it’s ok, here is the gallery and I hope you will enjoy it!

I wish you the best for 2024 and I hope you can achieve all your good resolutions. Thanks for being here.

1 January: First day of the year at the Botanical Garden of Rome. Nothing great, but it was nice to see people playing with these green lights.

Street Photo Gallery 1: Subways

Last week I landed on Threads with my Instagram account alessiotrerotoli and I thought that it would be nice use this new social media as a way to connect with other photographers, to spread good images and love for photography. So my idea is to post on this blog a gallery every week, everytime with a different subject. The first gallery, as you can read in the title, is about Subways, so I asked to my followers to share a picture taken in a subway train or a station. I had the chance to select some photos posted on Threads in addition to more images that I found in the vast ocean of internet. I’ll open this first photogallery with a picture that I took in Rome ten years ago.

Alessio Trerotoli (Roma)

From The Bus (You Can Do Photography Everywhere)!

Yesterday I came back to Rome after some days in Monopoli. I travelled by bus and it can be quite boring if you don’t have a creative mind! The bus did a stop in Napoli: it was raining and the light was really interesting, there was something great in the air. I really wanted to go down and walk in the city (and eat a pizza too!) but it wasn’t possible, so I tried to take some photos from the window of my bus and I received a great teaching: wherever you are, the rule is always the same, if you find something interesting, just shoot! Here some image I took from the bus. Nothing stunning, but an interesting experiment (and a good way to fight the boredom).

A good chance to take a picture for my series Raindrop Blues!

“Roma” at Arte in Nuvola, The Most Important Art Fair in Rome

Last weekend Rome hosted its annual Art Fair, Arte in Nuvola, a huge exhibition of art in every facets. If you visited the Expo maybe you ran into my photo Roma, in the booth of the YellowKorner Gallery. You know, a Fine Art Photographer usually works alone, in front of his/her computer and the only reactions he/she gets are on social media. So it was great to me to meet a lot of art lovers and have the chance to tell something about my work, the concept behind my multiple exposures project and what Urban Melodies represents to me. It was good to know a lot of people interested in my work too, with the purpose to start a collaboration. Sometimes it’s important to have an injection of self-esteem in order to never give up, since every artist, I guess, sometimes feels a bit lost.

Beside that, I breathed art for a couple of days, admiring some works of Pablo Picasso, Keith Haring, Giorgio De Chirico or Banksy, just to say some. I discovered some great artists that I didn’t know and I felt inspired.

“Film People” 200 Times!

About four years ago, in 2019, I started this crazy idea: asking people to write the title of their favorite film on a blackboard and then photograph them, trying to discover, through the reason for choosing the film, something more about them, a little piece of their life. In between there was a pandemic, some lockdowns and many months of social distancing, which prevented the Film People project from moving forward. Then things slowly returned to normal and this is how today the series has reached the remarkable quota of 200 portraits. In fact, 200 people have so far lent their faces to the project, 200 people who have had themselves photographed together with the title of their favorite film. Through the stories of these 200 people we discovered many films that we didn’t know, many stories that struck us, including memories, hopes, considerations and different moods. In fact, there is a bit of everything in the Film People project, from blockbusters to indie movies, from silent and animated films, to films with the most modern special effects. Boys, girls, men and women: there are those who chose the film which, after the Second World War, allowed them to discover what cinema was, and those who saw in a film the same mechanisms of a society from which they too, like the protagonist, decided to move away. But in addition to those who have found themes close to their heart in a film or those who have identified with the characters to the point of wanting to live like them, there are above all those who have linked the title of a film to an episode in their life, to a nostalgic memory, to one’s childhood or adolescence. The power of Cinema.