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SOMEONE IS WATCHING US FROM THE WALLS / PHOTOS OF EYES IN TORN AND DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS (# 1)

© Roberto Alborghetti There are eyes that always “look” at us. They are those of the faces on the advertising posters on the walls or on the billboards, along the streets of our cities. The torn paper of the advertisements, consumed by time and bad weather, can reveal interesting glimpses and elements, such as those… Read More SOMEONE IS WATCHING US FROM THE WALLS / PHOTOS OF EYES IN TORN AND DECOMPOSED PUBLICITY POSTERS (# 1)

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #34)

© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; this is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image. – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata o creata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #34)

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #33)

© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; this is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image. – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata o creata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #33)

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #32)

© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; this is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image. – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata o creata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS AND RUST ON AN OLD IRON DOOR (IMAGE #32)

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CRACKS, WHEN THE MATTER IS SHATTERED BY TIME (AND WEATHER): THE RAILWAY WARNING SIGN NEAR ROME #1

This image may look like a painting depicting a sky that has shattered under the blows of the global warming. Or it could also be the reproduction of a map seen from above during a flight around the globe. More simply, it is a close-up photo of the cracks on a warning sign at the… Read More CRACKS, WHEN THE MATTER IS SHATTERED BY TIME (AND WEATHER): THE RAILWAY WARNING SIGN NEAR ROME #1

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF A WORN STICKER ON THE FLOOR OF A RAILWAY STATION (IMAGE #31)

© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; this is not a digitally created, manipulated or enhanced image. – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata o creata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF A WORN STICKER ON THE FLOOR OF A RAILWAY STATION (IMAGE #31)

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ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS ON AN EXCAVATOR (IMAGE #30)

© Roberto Alborghetti – – Close-up photography; it is not a digitally manipulated or enhanced image – Scatto fotografico a distanza ravvicinata; non è un’immagine manipolata digitalmente. There is a free and spontaneous form of art that flows before our eyes every day, perhaps without us realizing it.It is the one that appears on the things that… Read More ART ON THINGS / PHOTO OF CRACKS ON AN EXCAVATOR (IMAGE #30)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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