365-valentina

During 2014, I took one photo a day of my daughter Valentina.
My daughter was two and a half years old on the first of January 2014. I wanted to create something that she could treasure when she is older.
I did not set out every day to take the most amazing and compelling and significant photo of her.
Life went on as usual in 2014, only I had my camera always close.
All the photographs are in colour, but I did create a little extra collecting some black and white that I particularly liked; so at the end I have more than 365 photographs.
The project was only completed several months after the end of 2014 because life happens in the middle and printing and glueing and making these homemade books wasn't that quick.
These four large journal are now sitting at the top of a shelf in our house.

See also this page for a brief note I wrote at the beginning of the project.

about

I have been calling myself aadm on the internet since forever. I have a very long name, so an acronym makes sense: that’s why aadm.

I was born and raised in Southern Italy and have lived in Gravina, Bari, London, Milano, Stavanger. I have returned to Milano in September 2018.

I like photography and making photographs.

The journal also collects my random writings about all the other things that interest me, like bikes (with and without engine), coding and generic computer hacking.

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northbound

On the 20th of August 2015 I left Italy with my family and traveled by car through Switzerland, Germany and Denmark; the final destination was Stavanger in Norway, where we arrived two days later.

We will be living here until the summer of 2017 – or at least that’s the plan. Nobody knows for sure because we depend on our employer’s economic health and right now it doesn’t feel too well.

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projects

sdm: periferia sud milano

Photographs from my adopted town.

paesaggi urbani / urban landscapes

Italian towns but not only.

northbound

On the road with my family; short trip for a long stay (Italy, Germany, Denmark and Norway, August 2015).

365 valentina

My daughter from the first to the last day of 2014.

un giorno al lago

Kyllesvatnet lake, Alsvik Natursenter (Sandnes, Norway). 23 August 2015.

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Side note: I removed some of the original photos from this set because naked kids were in them. And a few people said that was not a good thing. Being less brave, and much less of an artist than Sally Mann, I comply with the popular rules.