3 April, 2026
Professional Courtesy – One Shot Story
Chasing news lies at the core of any journalist’s work. The professionals who walk the streets instead of enjoying the comfortable seats on talk shows, discussing ‘l...
Andrea Monti's Posts
30 March, 2026
She Died Alone – One Shot (Tragic) Story
She was a drug addict —a “junk” some righteous zealot would have called her— and died on the street in the indifference of everybody but one. For a few days, a flower and a rain...
27 March, 2026
Misfocused Photo’s Quick Fix with ChatGPT and Nano Banana
When on an assigment I often take with me a second camera with a vintage lens. This is a way to test old glasses along modern ones, without risking failure. Every now and then, ...
24 March, 2026
A Lucky Shot with a Kiev 60 – One Shot Story
The story behind this photo is, actually, the story of the others that I failed to take on this roll of Ferrania P30 film. Having remembered that I had a number of mid-format ro...
20 March, 2026
A Composition’s Dilemma in Black and White – One Shot Story
This photo, taken in the centre of Padua, with my Nikon 35TI and a Ferrania P30, shows a composition’s dilemma. The idea was to explore the usual technique of ‘frami...
Across this set, the Carl Zeiss Ultron 50mm 1.8 performs as expected: good microcontrast and local separation, reasonably crisp edge definition where focus is placed, and a gene...
11 March, 2026
Why Do (Photo)books Matter
Throughout my professional career, I have written and edited several books. Initially, I was neither involved in nor interested in the manufacturing part of the process. Once th...
26 February, 2026
Carl Zeiss Jena Triotar 85/4 and Nikon Z5 – An Empirical Field Test
This empirical field test of a non exactly well-preserved Carl Zeiss Jena Triotar 85/4. Least of the ‘fogged’ glasses of this sample now under the care of master Adr...