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  • Inside the Photo #5

    Inside the Photo #5

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    Matteo Franchi

    Talking with Wesley Jacobs Happy Tuesday, my friends, and welcome to another appointment with Inside the Photo. This month, I’m putting a spotlight on the amazing landscape pictures of my friend Wesley Jacobs. I think back across my life and realised that, in one form or other, I’ve always enjoyed having a camera in my hands. It…

  • Bye bye, summer! See you next year!

    Bye bye, summer! See you next year!

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    Matteo Franchi

    Clouds, a Castle and a couple of days at the beach It’s been one month, more or less, since my family and I have come back from our last small vacation at the seaside. To be honest, the weather was not that friendly: out of 5 days of stay, we had two days with rain, one…

  • Unpublished #4

    Unpublished #4

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    Matteo Franchi

    Great to see you again, delighted by your decision of following and supporting me with this newsletter. Thanks! This was a crazy set. I wanted to have a powerful make-up, something that could remind of warriors and at the same time give a hint of a sort of futuristic world. I used the white neon…

  • The secret behind some of my most particular sets

    The secret behind some of my most particular sets

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    Matteo Franchi

    A good artist is the one who can steal, not the one who can copy. There is a big difference between stealing an idea and copying an idea.And it’s all into the ability of the author to drive the creativity to achieve the result. Be very careful here: I’m not talking about stealing or copying an image, which goes…

  • Inside the Photo #4

    Inside the Photo #4

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    Matteo Franchi

    Talking with Tonspi Happy Tuesday, my dear subscribers. I’m beyond excited to present to you Tonspi, my very welcome guest for this month’s Inside the Photo. My name is José, or Tonspi for my friends; I was born in Angola and currently live in Luanda.I started taking pictures on the sly when I was 8 years…

  • Take your time to switch off…

    Take your time to switch off…

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    Matteo Franchi

    …and recharge the batteries August, typically, is the slowest month for me.The day-by-day routine is frenetic and drains energies for an entire year. Work, family and unexpected issues to deal with are all a source of stress that gets accumulated with almost no chance to release it. This month is a sort of “mindfulness month” when I…

  • Back in the summer of…well, can’t remember when it was

    Back in the summer of…well, can’t remember when it was

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    Matteo Franchi

    But it was amazing, wild and smelled like freedom When I read this post by Nat Persoglio I was immediately thrown back into my teenage years. It was a punch, because those memories, though vivid, had been hiding back in my mind for a very long time. I was still in high school and we were three…

  • Unpublished #3

    Unpublished #3

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    Matteo Franchi

    If you had a look at my website or my socials, you know I don’t shoot only with female models. I also like to work with men, and I know some who are really great models and actors. Scrolling my archive to create this new Unpublished article, I came across this set I organised with Francesco right after the first lockdown…

  • Exit the exif obsession

    Exit the exif obsession

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    Matteo Franchi

    Are EXIF data an important info? Yes, but not really Ok, I admit it. I also fell into this vortex when I started my photographic journey.I believe it is a normal step towards learning and growing self-confidence, maybe even an essential one.When you approach something completely new, you first look for some guides or tips…

  • Inside the Photo #3

    Inside the Photo #3

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    Matteo Franchi

    Talking with Craig McGowan This month, the special guest of my Inside the Photo appointment is the fantastic landscape photographer Craig McGowan. As a teenager, my first camera was a 35mm film SLR Olympus OM-1. Decades later returning to photography I entered the digital era, with my current kit centred on a Nikon D850 system. My first love in…

  • The desire for creation

    The desire for creation

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    Matteo Franchi

    There is one thing I’ve noticed since I started making photographs: after each set, I immediately feel the urge to plan a new one. This is weird because photography has never been in my life until I started it, nearly 10 years ago (at the moment I’m writing this article). I thought the passion for…

  • Unpublished #2

    Unpublished #2

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    Matteo Franchi

    Here we go with another series of unpublished pictures. This time I bring you back to a set I organised in 2019 with my dear friend Jessica.It was pretty hard to find a suitable location for this. Smoke is not allowed everywhere so we needed to spot a place to spread it without risking being fined…