12 PICTURES TO REPRESENT 12 MONTHS: RETROSPECTIVE ON 2024

Here in the gallery 12 photos randomly selected from those I posted along the year. They are all part of my “Lacer/actions” project concerning images of torn and decomposed publicity posters, deteriorated surfaces, natural cracks, scratches and corrosions that we find everywhere in our cities. They are all close-up or macro photographs and they aren’t… Read More 12 PICTURES TO REPRESENT 12 MONTHS: RETROSPECTIVE ON 2024

LIKE SNOW ON A RED CARPET: MAGNIFICATIONS OF CRACKS AND CORROSIONS ALONG VICTORIA EMBANKMENT IN LONDON

© Roberto Alborghetti  This photo gallery – in festive colours: the images look like snow deposited on a red carpet – features 9 enlargements of random images of red cracks and scratches that I took in London, in October 2014, for my project “Lacer/Actions” and research on decomposed and dismantled advertising posters, natural cracks, industrial… Read More LIKE SNOW ON A RED CARPET: MAGNIFICATIONS OF CRACKS AND CORROSIONS ALONG VICTORIA EMBANKMENT IN LONDON

LONDON, LIKE A LARGE CONSTRUCTION SITE ALWAYS OPEN TO REGENERATE THE METROPOLIS

From Nottingham we go down to London. The capital of the United Kingdom is all a construction site. It’s nothing new. Here the ability to transform the urban forms of the past into those of the future travels at a high pace. And if architecture tells us a lot about a city, here it is… Read More LONDON, LIKE A LARGE CONSTRUCTION SITE ALWAYS OPEN TO REGENERATE THE METROPOLIS

CRACKS DO NOT DISTINGUISH COLORS… / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #4

© Roberto Alborghetti What you see in this photo series are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard in Santo Spirito, Bari (Apulia, Italy). They are the result of various and different changes… Read More CRACKS DO NOT DISTINGUISH COLORS… / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #4

RETROSPECTIVE / SPRING IS “SOON”: A SONG BY JEANIE BARTON WITH ABSTRACT PHOTOS TAKEN IN NOTTINGHAM

This is “Soon”, a beautiful song by jazz singer and composer Jeanie Barton. Her wonderful voice goes with abstract photos from “Lacer/actions” project and research by Roberto Alborghetti. The macro-photos of cracks and scratches on poles were taken in Beeston-Nottingham on March 2017. The videoclip is part of “The Ghost Bus Roads” project promoted by… Read More RETROSPECTIVE / SPRING IS “SOON”: A SONG BY JEANIE BARTON WITH ABSTRACT PHOTOS TAKEN IN NOTTINGHAM

LABYRINTH OF CRACKS ON PAPER / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #3

© Roberto Alborghetti What you see in this photo series are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard in Santo Spirito, Bari (Apulia, Italy). They are the result of various and different changes… Read More LABYRINTH OF CRACKS ON PAPER / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #3

LIKE A MAP OF LIGHTS AND SHADOWS / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #2

© Roberto Alborghetti What you see in this photo series are not collages built and created deliberately with my hands, joining and sticking piece by piece, but photos of real and random torn publicity posters I saw on an outdoor billboard in Santo Spirito, Bari (Apulia, Italy). They are the result of various and different changes… Read More LIKE A MAP OF LIGHTS AND SHADOWS / PHOTOS OF A BIG ADVERTISING BILLBOARD IN SANTO SPIRITO (BARI, PUGLIA) #2

A FLASH BETWEEN THE BROKEN WORDS / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 11)

© Roberto Alborghetti Even in the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg I found very interesting material for my project “Lacer/actions”. During the walks I obviously saw torn and decomposed advertising posters and other urban signs that I like to capture and document. Deteriorated posters are mainly placed on barriers erected to protect… Read More A FLASH BETWEEN THE BROKEN WORDS / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 11)

THERE IS A STORY IN EVERY EYE… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 10)

© Roberto Alborghetti Even in the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg I found very interesting material for my project “Lacer/actions”. During the walks I obviously saw torn and decomposed advertising posters and other urban signs that I like to capture and document. Deteriorated posters are mainly placed on barriers erected to protect… Read More THERE IS A STORY IN EVERY EYE… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 10)

LIKE AN INFORMAL ART SCENE… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 9)

© Roberto Alborghetti Even in the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg I found very interesting material for my project “Lacer/actions”. During the walks I obviously saw torn and decomposed advertising posters and other urban signs that I like to capture and document. Deteriorated posters are mainly placed on barriers erected to protect… Read More LIKE AN INFORMAL ART SCENE… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 9)

TEARS, OVERLAPS AND CUTS ON PAPER / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 8)

© Roberto Alborghetti Even in the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg I found very interesting material for my project “Lacer/actions”. During the walks I obviously saw torn and decomposed advertising posters and other urban signs that I like to capture and document. Deteriorated posters are mainly placed on barriers erected to protect… Read More TEARS, OVERLAPS AND CUTS ON PAPER / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 8)

LIKE A RED PAPER FLAME… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 7)

© Roberto Alborghetti Even in the capital city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg I found very interesting material for my project “Lacer/actions”. During the walks I obviously saw torn and decomposed advertising posters and other urban signs that I like to capture and document. Deteriorated posters are mainly placed on barriers erected to protect… Read More LIKE A RED PAPER FLAME… / PHOTOS OF TORN POSTERS IN THE STREETS OF LUXEMBOURG (# 7)