ARE YOU READY FOR A BRAND NEW BEAT?

Like in a Spike Lee movie. Sound coming from the street. Sound for the people on the street. Former members of The Jumpers, musicians Tiberio Longoni and Tony Fisher revived the ‘hood with an impromptu DJ set from the windows of the PONKJ bar, not far from The Canal District-Navigli. Roots, reggae, ska, dub, soul, funk and Stax Records classic hits… these are the songs that “rocked” and made the people in town sweat in a hot late afternoon. Music is not afraid of the dark: Tiberio and Tony continued to play records even when the sun went down. Don’t shoot the DJs, the party has to go on!

… Callin’ out around the world / Are you ready for a brand new beat / Summer’s here and the time is right / For dancing in the street…

SUBDIVISION

Sadly, subdivison happens inside some political rallies. One who asks for freedom and rights is the same person who attacks with gender hatred another protester exclaiming “W…E” and “B…H” forgetting precisely about freedom and rights. What a fool a human being is!

f/50 BRAVE NEW WORLD PROJECT

We’re back with a new f/50 photo project, Brave New World: this time John Meehan and I shot in color!

SEE: BRAVE NEW WORLD

ART NEEDS PEOPLE

Protest in front of the Piccolo Teatro Grassi, Milano, to ask politicians to support art during the pandemic. Young people, students, musicians and operators of the cultural sector (and photographers) together to ask for immediate intervention in support of theater, cinema and music. Art feeds us and will save us! (All frames taken with Fuji X100)

#parlamentoculturalepermanente

STORY OF A CHAIR

An old chair abandoned on the zebra crossing.

A pigeon landed near the chair

No love was born…

The chair showed off all its skills

Then came a man with a mask who fell in love with the springs of the chair

(All frames taken with Fuji X100, Milan, March 2, 2021)

“WINTER MIDSUMMER” PROJECT IN “CIEL VARIABLE”

My Winter Midsummer – Milan during covid-19 photo project (in collaboration with Artespressione and Matteo Pacini) in Canadian Art Photo Médias Culture magazine Ciel Variable. ENJOY!

ARTESPRESSIONE PRESENTS MATTEO CESCHI’S “WINTER MIDSUMMER” PROJECT

HI FOLKS, with my Winter Midsummer (Milan during Covid-19) photo essay a new collaboration starts with Paula Nora Seegy’s Artespressione Gallery, Milan. The project’s curator is Matteo Pacini who is following it as it develops.

ENJOY!

FREE DOWNLOAD: WINTER MIDSUMMER – MATTEO CESCHI – ENG

MILAN, DECEMBER 12… 1969-2019

 

Memories and faces cut the darkness of the darkest Past. Men and women whisper the sad chronicle of a bombing. Milanese civil society once again remembers the citizens who were slaughtered by extreme-right violence. In Piazza Fontana people loudly condemn fascism. The public speakers speak. The flags flap. Eyes fire up. Another December 12 adds new memories to the heart of the city.

 

F/50 “SUN, STEEL AND SKY” PROJECT

Sun, Steel and Sky, a new photo project realized with my fellows Keith Goldstein, Peter Barton and Steve Coleman. ENJOY!

AN HOUR OUTSIDE IN THE MARAIS

 

Occasionally I decide to go out with an old 35mm camera… This happens now and then. I don’t have a wish to feel like Cartier Bresson, you see?
Maybe it’s because of Paris itself that I took out my Yashica GSN Electro 35 and went down in the streets of the Marais.
One hour was enough: the old Yashica GSN weighs a lot, but its autofocus was fast enough to capture the different souls of the neighborhood. 35mm “language” is different, perhaps today few understand its aesthetics… (a Rollei RPX400 roll film loaded in camera).