Journal · Val d’Orcia, Tuscany The Cypress Came From Somewhere Else On history, culture, and what turns a landscape photograph into something more than an image The Tree Everyone Photographs and No One Asks About Every photographer who comes to Tuscany photographs the cypresses. The tall dark line along a ridge, the pair flanking a…
Journal · Essay · Photography & Artificial Intelligence Why Do We Still Take Photographs?After 40 Years Behind the Camera Raffaele Ferrari · August 2026 · 7 min read In a world where artificial intelligence can create almost any image, perhaps the most important reason to photograph is simply to be there. A few days ago,…
Journal · Val d’Orcia, Tuscany Slow Travel in Tuscany — Why the Best PhotographsCome From Staying Still On three days in one field, and what moving slowly through Italy actually gives you The Field I Kept Returning To There is a specific curve of road above Pienza, just past a farmhouse with two broken shutters,…
Journal · Bangkok, Thailand Do You Still Find Joy in It? A question about joy in photography, asked in Chinatown, and an answer I am still thinking about A Question About Joy in Photography During my last trip to Bangkok I met an old friend — a war photographer, a documentarian, a man whose images…
Journal · Sicily Photographing the Cretto Burri:Where Memory Becomes Landscape Raffaele Ferrari · June 2026 · Gibellina, Sicily There are places that immediately offer a photograph. And then there are places that ask you to slow down before even raising the camera. The Cretto Burri is one of them. Located in the heart of western…