My latest Photobook: from Scribus to Blurb via the Gimp

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Finally out, my latest photobook (second edition, already!):

‘Walking on the Rim: Photos, Encounters, Objects’

produced with the usual mix of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), namely Scribus for the pdf and The Gimp for the photographs. Text is made on the excellent LibreOffice. Thanks to Blurb guys for the superb work, the hardcopy is in fact amazing!

Preview it here or download the pdf (49 Mb) (disclaimer: the digital copy presents inaccuracies in some of the full bleed photos because the digital output does not take into account the book spine) .

It is also possible to listen to the soundscape of the rising tide among barges, while browsing the photobook: see full post for details [...]

New Setup and Workflow: more Libre than ever!

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I want to share my new setup and workflow while writing my PhD thesis in Visual Sociology, which is going to be conceptualised around, edited with, and printed by Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

Zotero Standalone. The first innovation I have brought in is the use of Zotero Standalone Application (ZSA), which is still in the debugging and testing stage, but it does work and sync very well… [...]

The Bronze Lions Outside the HSBS Headquarters

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Following comments and an exchange of emails from my previous post about the bronze lions outside the HSBS headquarter in Canary Wharf, London, I am extremely pleased to publish this amazing series of photographs about Hong Kong and the bronze lions there. Mr. Hagan’s two black-and-white photos were taken in the 50′s, and the two colour ones very recently, when he re-visited China with his youngest grandson. An… [...]

How to Embed your Zotero Bibliography in Scribus Books

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I had a bit of problems with the possibility of inserting my ZOTERO references in the pdf book I have been working on lately. Being it a photobook, I thought not to have a traditional Bibliography at the end of the text: that would have been a bit too heavy. Instead, I opted for a more flexible footnote style of referencing, such as Chicago without bibliography. The problem was that… [...]

Zotero, Ubuntu 10.04, and Java: not a perfect marriage as yet

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I want to share this because it gave me quite a big headache first thing this morning: I had just updated to the latest stable Ubuntu version 10.04, and Zotero did not work, or better the transmission between Open Office (now version 3.2) and Firefox (3.6) did not work. Why? well, because the Java applet necessary to run the transmission did not find a correspondent plug-in in Firefox. In fact… [...]

Stepan Rudik, the kids, and the Institute…

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or ‘For a fistful of pixels’.

This post is also an attempt to apologise to the unknown photographer for the previous comments I made on the Facebook forum promoted by The British Journal of Photography on the matter. In that circumstance, in fact, I suggested that the disqualified photo (from being 3rd winner at the World Press 2010 for Sport… [...]

Presentation at Crossing Lines

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Crossing Lines is an on-going collaboration between the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR) and London Independent photography (LIP).

My presentation slides on the dialectic between the spaces of representation and the representation of spaces in the context of the regeneration of the Greenwich Peninsula is available here. The final part shows some of my pictures of the ‘rim’ in-between… [...]