With an economy the size of Portugal’s, Catalonia accounts for 16 percent of Spain’s population, 19 percent of gross domestic product and 27 percent of its exports. With 30.3 billion of debt, however, represents 28 percent of Spain’s combined regional debt pile. Catalonia is planning to cut public spending by 10 percent this year. The story by Raphael […]
Although I grew up in Manhattan, the city always felt just outside the sanctuary of my relatively quiet neighborhood in Peter Cooper Village, a housing project on First Avenue between 20th and 23rd Streets. It bellowed and fumed over my shoulder, an infernal machine full of divine promise. It’s no surprise the atom was first split in […]
FRANCESCO PANTALEONE, a contemporary art dealer, opened the Francesco Pantaleone Contemporary Art Gallery in his place in the Vucciria, a neighborhood in Palermo. The apartment is on the top floor of a 16th-century palazzo that once belonged to the prince of Ramacca. I was very happy to come back to Palermo and to meet Francesco. Please, see […]
Enrique Polanco’s second home in Ibiza. The design was created by Andrés Jacque to have as minimal an impact as possible on the surrounding landscape. Here there is the slideshow to see on The New York Times. Thanks Enrique for your hospitality and kindness on the insel.
[photoshelter-gallery g_id=’G0000BOcmbPO8nGo’ g_name=’Valencia-City-of-Arts-and-Sciences’ f_show_caption=’t’ f_show_slidenum=’t’ img_title=’casc’ pho_credit=’iptc’ f_link=’t’ f_enable_embed_btn=’t’ f_show_watermark=’t’ f_mtrx=’t’ fsvis=’off’ width=’600′ height=’430′ bgcolor=’#AAAAAA’ btype=’old’ bcolor=’#CCCCCC’ crop=’t’ twoup=’t’ trans=’xfade’ tbs=’5000′ f_ap=’t’ bgtrans=’f’ linkdest=’c’ f_fullscreen=’f’ f_constrain=’f’ f_topbar=’f’ f_bbar=’f’ f_bbarbig=” f_htmllinks=’f’ f_send_to_friend_btn=’f’ f_smooth=’f’ f_up=’f’ target=’_self’ ] New pictures from Valencia shot. See the gallery at http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/01/23/travel/2011123-hours-valencia.html?scp=3&sq=valencia&st=cse
Last week I visited the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to shoot a story for the Helsinki Sanomat. Editor Kaisa Heinänen investigated on how with the opening of the museum Bilbao was changed. In fact the Guggenheim Foundation considers to open a new museum in Helsinki (Finland).
Stephanie Giribone, a jewelry maker from Paris, and her partner Mohamed Zefifene, a French Algerian entrepreneur, live in Tougana, a Moroccan village closed to Marrakesh. I visited and shot their place just before Christmas. They offered me a traditional Moroccan chicken Tagine. In the picture, Mohamed and Stephanie seated with Paula, 4, and Numa, 4 […]
In his writings, articles, television programs, and books he employs prose and news-reporting style to narrate the story of the Camorra (a powerful Neapolitan mafia-like organization), exposing its territory and business connections. Since 2006, following the publication of his bestselling book Gomorrah (Gomorra in Italian), where he describes the clandestine particulars of the Camorra business, Saviano has been threatened by several Neapolitan “godfathers”. […]
A story by Johanna Kippo illustrated by the pictures of mine, published on the Finnish Newspaper Helsinki Sanomat.
[photoshelter-gallery g_id=’G0000Zc41WYjnXwg’ g_name=’Morir-de-amor-GarcA-a-Lorca-s-short-life’ f_show_caption=’t’ f_show_slidenum=’t’ img_title=’casc’ pho_credit=’iptc’ f_link=’t’ f_enable_embed_btn=’t’ f_show_watermark=’t’ f_mtrx=’t’ fsvis=’off’ width=’600′ height=’430′ bgcolor=’#AAAAAA’ btype=’old’ bcolor=’#CCCCCC’ crop=’t’ twoup=’t’ trans=’xfade’ tbs=’5000′ f_ap=’t’ bgtrans=’f’ linkdest=’c’ f_fullscreen=’f’ f_constrain=’f’ f_topbar=’f’ f_bbar=’f’ f_bbarbig=” f_htmllinks=’f’ f_send_to_friend_btn=’f’ f_smooth=’f’ f_up=’f’ target=’_self’ ] Un viaggio sentimentale nei luoghi di Federico García Lorca Un vento di libertà soffia sulla Spagna negli anni venti. I […]
