Feeling Invisible in Cuba With the Ricoh GR

Feeling Invisible in Cuba With the Ricoh GR

By LORENZO MOSCIA It has been seven years since I last visited Cuba. Again it was an intense journey. I managed to “escape” and rediscover street photography which I left behind in the past years. My equipment was the trusted Ricoh GR and a Canon 6D with the 50mm F1.2. The Canon was difficult to […]

World Cup Despair in the Favela

World Cup Despair in the Favela

Great work, as always, by THEME’s regular contributor Lorenzo Moscia who travels the world with two cameras and two lenses. Lorenzo witnessed Brazil’s fatal FIFA World Cup blow against Germany in Rio de Janeiro’s biggest favela. Going down 1-7… Gods were humiliated in a nation where the seleção should have promised pride, joy and momentary […]

How a Single Photo Can Tell a Story

How a Single Photo Can Tell a Story

This is a writer’s golden rule: don’t try to tell a story in every detail. If a writer attempts to say and explain everything you’ll end up with a bore of a story. Use as few words as possible. Trust the reader to bridge the narrative gaps with his or her own active imagination. Otherwise […]

A Nikonist Going Canon 5D

A Nikonist Going Canon 5D

By LORENZO MOSCIA We all know that what is really important about taking pictures is not the camera but what you put in the frame. Given that I still think that I like to work with tools I feel comfortable with. For example, I cannot stop thinking about my days in Cuba, Haiti or Brazil […]

Reporting From the Eye of the Storm

Reporting From the Eye of the Storm

By LORENZO MOSCIA I arrived in Tacloban one week after typhoon Yolanda, one of the most deadly storms in the history of the Philippines, hit land on November 8, 2013. I was lucky enough to find a local family where I could stay. The first days there was not electricity, no water, and the Internet […]

The Transformation of Barcelona — A City Portrait

The Transformation of Barcelona — A City Portrait

Text by BEATRIZ SILVA Photos by LORENZO MOSCIA The monumental transformation undergone by Barcelona with the 1992 Olympic Games has failed to make disappear the diverse working-class city full of contrasts disappear where Pablo Picasso began painting in 1896. It is not necessary to venture too deep into the narrow streets of the El Raval […]

Europe’s New Poverty: Documenting Squatters in Rome

Europe’s New Poverty: Documenting Squatters in Rome

By LORENZO MOSCIA It’s a Saturday morning in Rome, Italy, and along with a group of people I’m running to document the occupation of an empty building. You heard it right: running. There are children and many women who, once they busted the locks, run to their new home. It’s always chaotic. Someone falls, other […]