The kings looking down

Gold winner at the 2025 Analog Sparks Awards

I’m glad to announce I just receive a Gold prize at the 2025 Analog Spark Awards. I participated with a series of images dedicated to the Italian life style. I chose to submit images showing the real life style, far from the crowded touristic spots where the landscape had been already modified to accommodate the

Merry Christmas by Luigi Barbano

Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2025!

Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2025 full of justice, freedom of speech and pruning of the governments’ trees! . . Christmas is the time to give what we have most precious. There was a time when gold, incense, and myrrh were rare, precious and essential in both their practical and spiritual nature. They were used

La Dolce Vita Workshops

La Dolce Vita Workshops

Great news! In partnership with La Dolce Vita Workshops, I created traveling workshops in Italy. The workshops are designed for any level of expertise and will teach you to live everyday La Dolce Vita and bring it in your photographs. . Italy is not just a place, it’s a lifestyle that created the most beautiful

Digital Shit

What if Artificial Intelligence…

…is already creating art and most of what we see in the Web and on social media is the digital equivalent of the famous Artist’s Shit by Piero Manzoni? Just kidding, but after I made the video you can check here, where I talk about the new trend of AI creating photography, this idea came

Luigi Barbano - Van Dyke Flowers

DIY UV Box Tested!

It passed quite a while since I built my UV Box but sometime life gets in the middle of our fun projects! Now finally I tested the UV Box and I can say it works great. . . I made a test with two different negatives: a very soft flower subject lighted with painted light

Italian Style UV box by Luigi Barbano

Luigi’s Drunk UV Box!

I was always told: if you have to do something, do it with your own style! So here my Italian style UV box to expose the papers coated with antique photographic processes. At the origin of photography many technologies of printing required the exposure in UV light. At those time sun was the perfect source

Merry Brandon Christmas

Merry Christmas to All…

Dear Friends, I wish you a great Christmas, filled with joy and the right personal choices! . This is a strange Christmas with too many people trying to cancel it, some for cultural reasons as the European Commission, others finding excuses in a virus that seem to spread only in specific situations. It is always