A journey through the people faces and expressions of the Abruzzo region | photo: ©MateldaCodagnone

“Rughe d’Abruzzo” – A Photo Journey in Black-n-White

On wrinkles, a Photographic Project… No surgeon will ever be able to create these signs so well, that only time and life experiences can paint on everyone’s face. Images ©MateldaCodagnone.

“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ~Diane Arbus | photo: ©MateldaCodagnone — “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.” ~Diane Arbus

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. Mrs. Whatsit” (Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time)

"You know there are moments such as these when time stands still...” ~Dorothea Lange | photo: ©MateldaCodagnone — “You know there are moments such as these when time stands still…” ~Dorothea Lange

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams | photo: ©MateldaCodagnone — “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” ~Ansel Adams

A lady in Rughe d'Abruzzo | photo ©MateldaCodagnone — “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.” ~Seneca

Men in Rughe d'Abruzzo | photo ©MateldaCodagnone — “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” ~Abraham Lincoln

Ladies in Rughe d'Abruzzo | photo ©MateldaCodagnone — “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ~John Lennon

Appetibilis on the beach | photo: daniel hansen unsplash

Photography

Gone Vacationing ;)

Appetibilis is on vacation, Happy Summer Vacation to everybody!

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E “Buon Ferragosto” a tutti!

"Cristo degli Abissi" località Vallevò di Rocca San Giovanni, Chieti | photo: ©MateldaCodagnone

Photography

Trabocchi Coast :: Christ of the Deep – Vallevò

“The large fishing device, made of intertwined trunks, planks and hawsers, gleamed like a huge white skeleton of an antediluvian amphibious being… it looked as if it had a life of its own, feelings and an appearance of a living being.” ~Gabriele D’Annunzio, The Triumph of Death.

… Trabocchi Coast :: Christ of the Deep – Vallevò

Polenta - Classic Italian Dishes from Valtellina (Lombardy)

Travel Bites

Classic Italian Dishes: Valtellina Valley in Lombardy

My journey of discovering the classic Italian dishes starts in Lombardy (a Northern region of Italy), inspired by the words of Mario Soldati (Italian writer, film director and passionate foodie):

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