I’m a physicist and I teach mathematics; cybersecurity is what pays the bills.
I’ve been photographing for years, mostly in the street, and I find it hard to go for a walk without a camera in my hand. Rather than pretty pictures, I’m after understanding what I see: people, how they relate to each other, the place they live in. The camera is my excuse to look slowly.
This site has two parts. La Foto Rota is about looking: galleries, a manifesto, articles on image theory and Japanese aesthetics, and the photo walks I organise now and then. The lab is the physicist’s side: measurements, calculations and manuals on optics, sensors and exposure, plus simulators to try things out before you shoot: the light of a flash, the rangefinder of a Leica M, an eclipse, a long exposure, a foggy night. The numbers are in plain view so anyone can redo them. Tools like these are scarce on the web, which is why I build them.
I teach workshops occasionally, because teaching forces me to sort out what I think I know. I read a lot about photography, and I still don’t fully understand the images of some Japanese photographers. That’s why I keep going back to them.
