JOURNAL

Field notes, project diaries and behind-the-scenes from Italy, Portugal and beyond.

Where I record the work between sessions: locations I keep returning to, frames I'm proud of, the technical and the personal.
Abandoned Buildings, Urbex, Liminal Spaces, Cinematic Photography Mario Vastola Abandoned Buildings, Urbex, Liminal Spaces, Cinematic Photography Mario Vastola

The house of a thousand portraits

Over the course of three years, I hosted nearly a hundred sessions there. Each time, the house revealed something new — a corner of forgotten beauty, a room I had never noticed, a shaft of light falling differently through the cracked glass.
The place never stopped whispering ideas.

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