GOOOOOD morning LONDON

Finally after the foggy and wet winter the sun looked through the clouds and shone on us sinners who like to indulge on the open air.

LAIBACH

Laibach is an avantgarde musical group from Slovenia, who will be performing at the Tate Modern in April this year.

They were formed in the 1980's as a provocation to the communist dictatorship. Their neo-nazist style was not born from their desire to fight communism, nor to support nazist movement, but to sensibilize the dictatorship used to impose order, and keep the population in fear.

Pompous outfits, imposing scenery, uniforms, marching, controlled movements, noise, simple rhythms ... you can feel really confused ... am I in Germany in the 1930's or Yugoslavia in the 50's or just in some Conan movie? ... are questions that swarm in your head. All the dictatorships are the same is their message.

The last time I went to one of their shows it was in Slovenia. I went just because they were very popular at that time. I really didn't enjoy the music, which is a mix of recurrent rhythm, loud noise and authoritative yelling.

But, with Laibach, it is not just about the music. It is about the idea, the feeling ... and this is the "fil rouge" of their show. They want you to feel small, impotent, scared and ripped into by a higher authority. 

At the end of the concert, when I left the scene of their crime, I felt liberated, free at least of all the anxiety induced by the system.

So if you want to feel free go to their concert and no matter how much you will suffer, try to concentrate on the feeling of leaving the prison into which they lured you. And remember, you went there at your own desire to belong to something you find "cool". And don't worry they also thought about after, they will try to sell you a passport of a country that physically doesn't exist ... heaven maybe?!

Check their music here ...

and their web site here ...

45 Strode Road

When I started the blog many people said "now, you need to start writing". I am not very good with words, I prefer pictures and my last photo project is about people who lives on 45 Strode Road ...

let they tell you who they are and what they think about immigration ... 

Fashion and culture

This is my project I've started few months ago. I tried to discover how religion and culture influence fashion ... I am still working on it ... more informations about the project

On the bank of river Ticino

Before I moved to London I had lived in Italy and where I met many interesting people.
One of them is Luca from Pavia. We spent a lot of time together talking about photography and life in general.
These three photos were taken during one of our "photo-walks" on the banks of river Ticino.

The Tide II

I did some editing with photos done for the project ...

The Tide

The work to be proud of it. 

I met this bunch of theatre people who needed some photos to promote their play.

We did two days of shooting in east London and somewhere on the english coast.

The play The Tide is about a man found on the coast of England years ago.

The man declared he don't know who he was.

I don't want to unveil the story and if you like theatre I would suggest you look it up.