Matteo Franchi

  • Meta and GDPR

    Meta and GDPR

    It’s recent news that Meta was fined a record amount of $1.3B for violating GDPR rules and sending information about EU users to the US. I’m personally happy about this decision, and, if you follow me on my socials, I’ve never hidden my position against Meta and their products. The main point is I can’t stand for…

  • What value can I share with my publications?

    What value can I share with my publications?

    I’ve been thinking a lot about what to write. It’s not easy at all to find something that will give you concrete value in the jungle of content that’s available on the net. Before I started this new journey, my only way to communicate was through my images. Which is still what I like the…

  • Instagram: the good and the evil

    Instagram: the good and the evil

    I believe that all the noise that’s been around Instagram in the recent past contributed to give it more attraction and to keep people to still use it despite all the changes they’ve been making.My personal experience on the topic tells me that, while a lot of photographers are fed up with the logic that…

  • Why Portraits?

    Why Portraits?

    I’m pretty sure it happened to almost all the beginners: you wander around with your camera taking a snap of basically everything.I believe this is an essential step in the growth of a photographer because it’s the start of a process that helps you find your way and define which is the kind of photography…

  • Let me introduce myself

    Let me introduce myself

    Substack is a brand new place for me. Even if I love writing, what I’ve done so far has been just adding (nice) captions to my pictures. Not even on all pictures.Because my creativity goes mostly into photography. When my friend Nikki told me about this platform, I thought I should have a look to…