That's Mr Geldof speaking

[epand56]

Yesterday, Bob Geldof spent the whole day at La Stampa newspaper and was Editor in Chief for one day on the occasion of the G8 conference that in three days will be held in Italy. Africa will be in fact one of the most important topics,
Quite an interesting day and of course I had my M8 with me.









Leica M8 + Summilux 50mm f1.4 Asph
Thanks for looking

[biglouis]

Wow! Talk about bang on in focus. An excellent series of very engaging images. Well done!

LouisB

[pauledell]

Enrico,

A great series. Each picture has great tones, sharpness and framing. Wonderful moments captured well.

Paul

[maurometallo]

Very well done, Enrico: Fotojournalism at its best!

[roguewave]

Enrico, is that unusual for your paper? He's an outsized personality & figure, not exactly mainstream. I like #2 best.

[louloumum]

Enrico,

Congratulations with this very fine series !

I also like # 2 the best. The most "Geldof'ish"

[epand56]

Louis, Paul Mauro, Ben And Marie Louise,
Thank you very much for looking and leave a comment. I appreciate.

Ben, this is quite unusual since we usually have Italian politicians and other gang members visiting the newspaper for mutual favours. But we have a brand new Editor in Chief, Mr. Mario Calabresi (the guy in lower left corner in pic #2) that is ayoung (40) smart and intelligent and able to set up happenings like this. The day wit Bob Geldof was extremely interesting and he's a nice friendly man. I had a great time.

[stuny]

Enrico -

Terrific series for composition, subject, detail, contrast, tonal range, tonal quality and selective focus.

[earleygallery]

Excellent series, did they use any in the paper? Sir Bob looks to be working hard.

[epand56]

Thank you Stuart and James.

James, maybe they will be used on the newspaper web page. Bob was really working hard on the special issue of the paper on the future of Africa. He did a very interesting speach and i could spend half an hour with him while he was writing the words we put on the issue cover. I told him his handwriting was even worst than mine and he laughed and said "yes, that's a tragedy".
I love this 70es Pop Star look he has

[vdb]

Enrico, nothing to add. This series is beyond exceptional.

[wilfredo]

Enrico,

Great character study. Just seeing these photos gives me a glimpse into this man's psyche.

Cheers!

[lanetomlane]

Enrico, terrific images .... all of them. Wonderful black and white tones, well captured.
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Regards, Tom


Photography by Tom Lane

[Bo_Lorentzen]

Enrico,

The series is outstanding as a whole, Im not going to pick one over another, beautiful environment and character development.

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[epand56]

Virgil, Wilfredo, Tom and Bo,

thank you very much for your encouraging comments.
I really appreciate. It was a day of fun.

[india]

Enrico really great photos and reportage, i agree with all the other comments, but for me I think that Bob looks really old the last time I saw him was about 18 years ago wow

thankyou for posting these great photos you have takern


warm regards david

[epand56]

David, thank you for your words and for taking the time to look at my pictures.
That was my first meeting with Bob and besides the aged and quite fatigued look, i found him full of energy and incredibly communicative.
I suppose he is around sixty now and I'm amazed by the amount of things he did the other day.

[azzo]

Enrico,

Excellent work done here.

[epand56]

So kind of you Ivan, really appreciated comment

[Jamie Roberts]

Robert Geldof, KBE... According to Wikipedia, he's not quite 50 yet! LOL! I think they have their dates off by 9 years or so

Ah well. What great shots! I love the second one, especially. Well done!