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Alessio Franconi

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70 years passed: Normandy and the D-Day remembrance!

Probably, for a lot of us, those days are nothing more that some war movies or at most some far away memory of our grandfathers. Yet who saw those days lived the change of history, the same history that nowadays allows us to leave the life we are living. If that day would have ended […]

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To all Franconiphotos’ friends: Happy Easter!

Dear all Franconiphotos’ followers, I want to wish you a Happy Easter! I want to represent this Easter with a photographic shot taken one year ago during an evening touching celebration in San José, Costa Rica. The cathedral was lightened only with candles’ light held by the worshippers. Small lights of hope that cannot be […]

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Do you print your photos? Searching the lost prints into the digital desert!

Just few weeks ago a gloomy notice was spread on the safeguard of our memories. No, we aren’t talking about any kind of complot, the international politics has nothing to do with this notice. The plotters, this time can relax a bit. This time the matter is about something that is really close to us. […]

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I would like to buy a camera, but which one? A saving guide.

I guess last time you entered in a big mall you were disoriented in front of the huge choice of cameras divided in different brands, cryptic models, asking yourself the one millions dollars question: “which is the best one?” If your aim is only to show off to friends of yours your brand new camera, […]

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To all Franconiphotos’ friends I wish a Merry X-Mas!

Here we are with few photos from Milan in a pure X-Mas atmosphere. With these photos I wish you a Merry X-Mas. New posts are coming soon enriched by photos and intersting stories. © All rights reserved. [flexislideshow pageid=”” lightbox=false lboxtitle=false slideshowtitle=false] [thumbnails pageid=”” width=”206″ height=”137″]

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Also in Italy there was a “Berlin Wall”, did you know that?

Who would have told that? If I had not passed from there, where it was still standing, this would have been a story that I could not tell. His bigger brother, the Berlin wall, more popular and somehow more important, lasted less: “only” 28 years. However, did you know that also Italy had a wall […]

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An unusual sunset here in Nova Vas.

The sunset fades in its intense red shades. After hours driving, I am finally here in this forgotten place in Slovenia, just a few hundred meters from the Italian border. Borders of two countries both under the European flag. This small village called Nova Vas has just few roads that become dirt just few meters […]

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Curvy Models: the end of a fashion era in favour of a better respect of the woman?

A Victoria’s Secret recent advertising campaign, producer of underwear, awoke the mass media’s attention because its advertisement showed ten extra slim models presented under “the perfect body” slogan. The only answer had been an outcry against this body defined as “perfect”. The Daily Mail, under journalist Jill Foster initiative, published a photo where eight normal […]

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Mobile photography, do you use your mobile phone camera? Why not?

Here and there surfing on internet we can easily come across attacks to a branch of photography, the so called “mobile photography”. Roberto Cotroneo, writer and journalist, has recently formulated one of these attacks in Italy. His attack has been shared thousands (of) times over the social networks. In two words he offends the mobile […]

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On the history traces: The White War and the flower’s path.

There are stories… There are stories that is necessary to live in order to understand. Stories that can be scarcely glimpsed at, closed as they are within few lines of the schoolbooks… yet, that cold written words that capture our attention only for few seconds, narrate adventures that nowadays are quite impossible even to imagine. […]