Sono passato da Ryu e non ho fatto danni, questa non so se sia una bella o una cattiva notizia: sono comunque attratto da un esperimento e prima o poi considererò una tender-pocket-camera da portarmi dietro quando la M è veramente inopportuna per il coefficiente di rischio o comunque per dimensioni.

Sono uscito e in via Dante ho trovato chi vende sassi, sassi dipinti, per tirare su due spiccioli e mangiare. Fa freddo, il posto che si è scelto è ancora in ombra: le sue mani tremano mentre si arrotola una sigaretta. Mi sorride quando gli compro un pezzetto di roccia con il simbolo “PEACE”.

Pietre (stones) e pace: come non ricordare un brano dei Rolling Stones, “Gimme Shelter” dall’album “Let it bleed”, scritto nel 1969 a condanna del momento di guerra nel Viet Nam.

Well, it’s a very rough, very violent era. The Vietnam War. Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we knew it in the conventional sense. The thing about Vietnam was that it wasn’t like World War II, and it wasn’t like Korea, and it wasn’t like the Gulf War. It was a real nasty war, and people didn’t like it. People objected, and people didn’t want to fight it. That’s a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that.” Racconta Mike Jagger in un’intervista del 1995.

Oh, a storm is threat’ning, My very life today
If I don’t get some shelter, Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away

War, children, it’s just a shot away, It’s just a shot away
War, children, it’s just a shot away, It’s just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’, Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet, Mad bull lost its way

 Foto? Via Dante, in un Sabato mattina …

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Ah, per “Gimme Shelter” vi ho pescato una versione che vede assieme gli U2, Fergie e Mike Jagger: come fare a non ascoltarla tutta, cantandola ….

 


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It has been more than fifty years since I began traveling across the world — and the seven seas — for work or for pleasure, always with a Leica M camera close at hand. The camera has never been an accessory; it has been a constant companion, a way of observing, remembering, and making sense of the places and people I encountered along the way. I started keeping this kind of journal some time ago, not as a diary in the traditional sense, but as a space where images and words could meet. This is not a publication driven by schedules or algorithms. At times I disappear for long stretches; then, inevitably, I return with semi-regular updates. Publishing, for me, is a mirror of my state of mind and emotions. It follows my rhythm, not the other way around. You have to take it exactly as it comes. Every photograph you see here is mine. They are fragments of a life spent moving, looking, and waiting for moments to reveal themselves — often quietly, sometimes unexpectedly. This blog is not about destinations, but about presence. About what remains when the journey slows down and the shutter finally clicks.

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