Entries by Riccardo Budini

Onna, the village erased by earthquake. Italy

The small village of Onna was almost completely erased by the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region in Italy on April 6, 2009. 85% of its old buildings collapsed, killing 40. In 1944 Onna already suffered from its tragedy…

Text and photos by Riccardo Budini

L’Aquila, ghost city for six years and on. Italy

Red Zone, cordoning off the medieval center of L’Aquila: the wounds inflicted by the lethal earthquake seem slow to heal. The city, fled on a deadly night of six years ago, still remain suspended in time, showing the signs of an abruptly interrupted life.

Text and photos by Riccardo Budini

Centrale Montemartini, one of a kind Museum

WORLD CULTURES AND HERITAGE – On October 31, 1997 the exhibition “Le macchine e gli dei” opens. During the broadening works of the “I Musei Capitolini”, an important part of its collection was transferred…

Text and photos by Riccardo Budini

Candlelight vigil in Rome for the Charlie Hebdo massacre

A crowd gathered in Piazza Farnese in front of the French Embassy for a candlelight vigil in solidarity with the victims of the attack against the headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which resulted in the killing of 12 in Paris…

A counter white flight. Queens, New York

Middle class families are breaking in the intensely diversified social pattern of Jackson Heights in a sort of “counter white flight”. Queens, New York City

Silent gentrification in the heart of Queens

The intensely diversified social pattern of Queens starts to quietly add the presence of a class of European ancestry where in the past it was more a rarity. Rezoning of …

Photos and Text by Riccrado Budini

Times Square, New York

Muslim women in their typical clothing share their meal in Times Square. New York, USA. Sept. 13, 2014 Photo: Riccardo Budini / UnFrame

Tribute in Light on 9/11

A crowd of some 100 people gathered at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo to spectate and phptograph the Tribute in Light memorial on the 13th anniversary of 9/11

Hot Roman Autumns

The term hot autumn has been used by the Italian press to describe autumns with significant amounts of strikes. Such season of strikes have more often…

Photos and text Riccardo Budini

Living with Migraine

Migraine is a neurological disorder that is often socially underrated, as it mostly gets confused with the common and occasional headache…