Nice to meet you, I'm Gianluca from Italy

[Gianluca Drago]

Thanks for letting me join this forum. I feel obliged to introduce myself briefly. I'm not a professional photographer, but I'm not an amateur either given my age. Today I go around with a compact camera in my backpack, a four-thirds one because that's all I need for the objectives I've set myself, which at the moment are to document the state of the artistic works of the Twentieth century that still barely survive in the streets and squares of my hometown.
I take the photos in digital RAW, develop them in Darktable and publish them on a static, anti-social site which I hope will be useful so that my fellow citizens realize that they have an artistic heritage to be known and protected.

That's all.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Welcome Gianluca! Reading your introduction, I'm thinking you might be interested in @Julian Tanase's work - he uses film, but does really interesting work around the street/documentary/travel themes in Central Europe.
He has an excellent site here www.juliantanase.com

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Thank you for the heads up. I got a taste of his work in the morning today and I'm willing to dig deeper.
Best regards.
Gianluca

 

[Pete Askew]

Welcome to RPF, Gianluca. That sounds a very worthwhile activity and I'm looking forward to seeing you work and being inspired.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Welcome to RPF, Gianluca. That sounds a very worthwhile activity and I'm looking forward to seeing you work and being inspired.

@Pete Askew thank you for your warm welcome. I'm not an real photographer and I'm not sure I could post anything interesting here, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to know this interesting site and forum. For me it's gold.

 

[Stephane Tougard]

Hello Gianluca

Welcome, look forward to seeing your work.

 

[Pete Askew]

Well although you may claim not to be a real photographer I think the images you have shared prove that you most certainly are! And anyway the name of the forum derives from the fact that one must use one's real name to be involved in RPF. The original founder, Hamish Gill, wanted to create a forum that lacked the conflict that seems so often to accompany action of forums where people 'hide' behind an anonymous 'handle'. I think he has been prove right!

 

[Julian Tanase]

Welcome, Gianluca, looking forward to see some of your work. All the best for now !

 

[Ibraar Hussain]

Ciao amico!

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Welcome Gianluca! Just so you know: you are no longer "the new guy"