Category Archives: Travel Stories from the Road

By the time I reached Lodi, I had already spent a stretch of the year walking through Piacenza, Pavia, and Cremona, each one another data point in a much longer question I was asking myself: could I live here? I was staying in Santo Stefano Lodigiano at the time, close enough to treat Lodi as an easy day trip, and far enough into this search that I’d started noticing my own patterns. Which details I photographed first. Which ones I circled back for. What made a city feel like a place to visit versus a place to actually stay.

There are two ways I tend to photograph a city. The first is the deep dive. I arrive with a plan, chase the sunrise shots with no-one in them, visit the landmarks, explore the side streets and wait for the evening light in the main squares. I spend a few days trying to understand the place.