Dio creo’ il primo giardino e Caino la prima Città
God created the first garden and Cainus the first city
Category: Milano
Walk on earth
“The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth.”
Línjì Yìxuán
“Il vero miracolo non è volare in aria o camminare sulle acque, ma camminare sulla terra”.
Línjì Yìxuán (Li Lin Chi)
Architecture is a dream
“Architecture is a dream, geometry its tale, the handwork is the realization of the dream, the architect the one who tells dreams”.
Carlo Farroni
“L’architettura è un sogno, la geometria il suo racconto, il manufatto la realizzazione del sogno, l’architetto colui che racconta i sogni”.
Carlo Farroni
Time is eternity
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity”.
Henry Van Dyke
“Il tempo è troppo lento per coloro che aspettano, troppo rapido per coloro che temono, troppo lungo per coloro che soffrono, troppo breve per coloro che gioiscono, ma, per coloro che amano, il tempo è eternità”.
Henry Van Dyke
Anyone who tries to posses a flower
“Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field you’ll keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon”
Paulo Coelho
“Chi cerca di possedere un fiore vede la sua bellezza appassire, ma chi lo ammira in un campo lo porterà sempre con sè. Perché il fiore si fonderà con il pomeriggio, con il tramonto, con l’odore di terra bagnata e con le nuvole all’orizzonte”.
Da “Brida” di Paulo Coelho
Memories for the future
Freedom is the quintessence of street photography. Freedom to explore the city whenever and wherever you want because when and where the picture were taken truly represent the photographer’s mood and inspiration. The remaining value of the picture are the subject you have chosen and how you’ll be able to portray it. In the current times of denied freedom and solitude of spaces, street photography turns to be annihilated and only the representation of emptiness and disappearance can remain.
In order to provide memories for the future, I am starting a daily recollection of pictures of Milano I have shot in the past years, while waiting the streets to be repopulated again.
L’essenza della fotografia di strada è la libertà. Libertà di esplorare la città quando e dove senti di volerlo fare perchè il tempo e il luogo sono parte integrante dello stato d’animo e del messaggio che l’immagine trasmetterà. Il resto si colloca nel soggetto che il fotografo ha scelto di voler rappresentare e su come lo ha raffigurato. In questi momenti di libertà negata e di solitudine dei luoghi, la fotografia di strada si annulla e rimane solo la rappresentazione del vuoto e della scomparsa.
Inizierò da oggi un ricordo giornaliero delle immagini raccolte in questi anni, in attesa che il mondo torni a vivere in strada con l’intento di fornire memorie per il futuro.
Novegro Photo Day
Si è tenuta, dal 18 al 20 ottobre 2019, nel Parco Esposizioni di Novegro, nella periferia sud-est di Milano, una mostra collettiva delle opere dei fotografi appartenenti a PhotoMilano, il club dei fotografi milanesi. Questa la mia foto esposta e scelta dalla commissione. Rappresenta la scalinata di un accesso alla metropolitana della stazione di Rupubblica decorata da dipinti della street art di cui anche Milano si sta adornando. La foto risale a giugno 2018 ed è eseguita con un obiettivo fisheye.
A collective photographic exhibition of the members of PhotoMilano, the milano photographic club, was held from 18 to 20 october 2019 at the Exhibition Parc of Novegro, a neighborhood in the southeastern area of the city. This is the photo of mine which was selected for the exhibition. It portrays the wall paintings at the entrance to the subway station of Repubblica. It was shot in june 2018 using a fisheye lens.
fashion photoshooting in galleria vittorio emanuele
Few days ago I happened to stop in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, in Milano, and watch a photo shooting session with a model wearing wedding dresses. The Galleria has a beautiful light in sunny days because of the colour of its glass roof and the marble floor has nice decorations which provide reflections ranging from pale brown to red and blue. The model stunned with her beauty. She was very tall and blond haired. Lots of people were standing around her but she posed and moved and walked very easily following the photographer’s instructions.
milan skyscrapers
Milan is the Italian city that has grown more vertically through the construction of skyscrapers. Currently, there are 25 completed and under construction buildings that stand at least 100 mt.. My favourite ones are the Unicredit tower, in the Porta Nuova district, and the Isozaki and Hadid towers, in the citylife district. These latter are also called “il dritto” (the straight) and “lo storto” (the awry). I am showing some pictures I have taken in the last few days. The Unicredit Tower is seen with the famous “bosco verticale” building in the beautiful frame of the new garden area built up around the “biblioteca degli alberi” (trees library). November sky in Milan is typically grey-white and looks homogeneous, not the best sky for a picture, but there are nice autumn colours on the leafs of trees and in the few flowers on the ground.
advertisement in via pisani
How much the urban landscape has been changed by images of advertisement is impressive. In the last few days a huge poster has been set up on the building which is in front of the tower named “il grattacielo di Milano” in via Vittor Pisani. The image is a beautiful, enormous, woman’s profile portrait on a completely white background. She seems to be looking at and admiring the tower. The grattacielo (“skyscraper”) is 116 meters tall and it was built between 1950 and 1955. At that time, it was the highest building in Italy, higher than the highest statue of the Duomo church. The grattacielo is the symbol of the new architectural Milanese style which was developed immediately after the end of world war II. Its design is very simple and essential. There seems to be an interaction between the model’s face and the tower. Looking at them together from Piazza della Repubblica gives an awesome visual effect.
Giorgio Gherardi Photography 