The kings looking down

Gold winner at the 2025 Analog Sparks Awards

I’m glad to announce I just receive a Gold prize at the 2025 Analog Spark Awards. I participated with a series of images dedicated to the Italian life style. I chose to submit images showing the real life style, far from the crowded touristic spots where the landscape had been already modified to accommodate the

Merry Christmas by Luigi Barbano

Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2025!

Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2025 full of justice, freedom of speech and pruning of the governments’ trees! . . Christmas is the time to give what we have most precious. There was a time when gold, incense, and myrrh were rare, precious and essential in both their practical and spiritual nature. They were used

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Also this year Christmas arrived and with it my usual Christmas picture to wish you wonderful holidays, a fantastic 2023 and the joy of experiencing an analog life. . . Usually for my Christmas photograph I follow the big events of the year, and you can see in this article what I did in the

Italian Style UV box by Luigi Barbano

Luigi’s Drunk UV Box!

I was always told: if you have to do something, do it with your own style! So here my Italian style UV box to expose the papers coated with antique photographic processes. At the origin of photography many technologies of printing required the exposure in UV light. At those time sun was the perfect source

Black and White Tales, The Book

Black and White Tales, The Book

Before I start with the new projects for 2021, here some final considerations about my Black and White Tales project and the presentation of the book. The book can be previewed and bought here on Blurb. . . I kept the book very simple, with a short version of the tales and just location and

Welcome to 2021

What a freaking year 2020 had been! Now we are 12 days into 2021 and it seems to suck even more… but I’m still optimist so I will focus on the positive I got from 2020 and tell you a little about my projects for 2021. If you prefer a video version, just watch it

Black and White Tales, Print 50 by Luigi Barbano

Black and White Tales, Print #50

After a year, the most strange, upsetting and confusing year of my life, the Black and White Tales project arrived at its end. A project that helped me stay alive in this crazy world. . . I hope you enjoyed it, now is time for me for some postpartum depression and I will be back

Black and White Tales, print #49 by Luigi Barbano

Black and White Tales, Print #49

The project is almost done and I decided to close a circle. This image was taken in the same place and with the same subject as the Black and White Tale #1. Around 35 years between the 2 images and a lot of similarities and differences! The image is a part of a project you