OVER 20 STORIES FOR FREE & HURTIGRUTEN

Well, THANK YOU guys for the very good results of PadPlaces. This way of showing my work is really becoming mature and well received. More then 6000 apps have been downloaded worldwide and an estimate 2500 people are regularly following the new additions.

To celebrate this I have given FREE access to over 15 stories that were for sale. I still think is very important to  preserve a value to the latest works and major stories, at the same time I want to enlarge our community.
The stories now for free are: Rohingyas Refugees, Loma Story, Amazon, Burma Boxing and Austral Ports in the Documentary section.
Pai, Kyoto, Vigan, Henan, Odessa, Phu Quoc and Sabah in the Travel section.

More then this, still for free I just added the cruise chronicle on the Hurtigruten, the Norwegian mail ship that goes from Bergen to Kirkenes, over 2500 km along the coast til the Russian border. Enjoy..

TWO NEW UK STORIES

Two new stories are now in PadPlaces. Shoot in July they are dedicated to the innovative GLASGOW ARCHITECTURE and to the surprising YORKSHIRE ART scene.
Both are available in the NEW and TRAVEL section of the app.

BELIEVERS SELECTION NOW IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Many are familiar with my project dedicated to Prayer among the major world religions that I shoot in the first half of the past decade and became the books IO CREDO (for Mondadori, but now out of stock) and PELLEGRINI (for the TCI).
For those who like the subject I have added to PadPlaces, for free download, an 111 photos selection from that work.
I'm actually planning an updated edition of the work with more recent photos and a more intimate approach. Your suggestions will be appreciated.

ASIA BUSINESS CAPITALS ARE NOW AVAILABLE

The BUSINESS CAPITALS OF ASIA series is now available in PadPlaces.
Four brand new stories, SINGAPORE, HONG KONG, SEOUL and GUANGZHOU are completing the series that had BANGKOK, JAKARTA and KUALA LUMPUR as first steps.
The stories are dedicated to a presentation of the colorful contrasts of these megalopolis where modernity and traditions face an uncertain present.
We will add more to this project in the near future.

VERSION 2.1 NOW RELEASED

Version 2.1 of PadPlaces is now available on iTunes for download or update.

This update fixes some minor bugs detected in the version 2 released around a month ago.

Some useful notations:

If you update from version 1 or 1.1 please delete the app from your iPad before installing this new one. This is because the new features, including the preservation of each story intro page, are not compatible with the old application.
You'll need to download the previously downloaded stories again, without paying oo course.
If you update from version 2 you'll need to do nothing but just update through iTunes.

Downloading videos requires time, depending on your connection. Please do not interrupt the download until finished.

PadPlaces requires some memory to work smoothly. If you have too many Apps  running on your iPad background you may see some minor problem. Just close some running Apps and restart PadPlaces.

As usual your feedback will be welcomed. Thanks!

NEW SINGAPORE STORY NOW UPDATED, and version 2.1

The Singapore story within PadPlaces is now the new version, with images shoot in 2011. If you already purchased the old version you can download it for free, but you'll need to delete the old one from your iPad.
This story is part of the series dedicated to the Asian business capitals. Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta and Singapore are already available while the new ones, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Seoul, will be available soon.

We'll soon release also an App update, 2.1, that will correct some minor bugs in the recent version 2.0 release. We'll keep you updated with the news.

BANGKOK SOUL show images are now visible in PADPLACES

BANGKOK SOUL is a show that will be part of CORTONA ON THE MOVE travel photo festival. You can preview the images for free within PadPlaces.
Here is a short presentation.

These photos are not a "project". Or rather, are not part of any "photographic project" as it is understood today. Perhaps they can be considered the clipboard for a life project instead.
For mid-year Bangkok is the city where I live as the opposite to my Florence metropolitan museum. Whereas the Tuscan hills, that I continue to love more than any other landscape, make me calm, in this city I am forced to live, to move, to evolve.
I came here for the first time in 1978, and I saw her transforming from capital of new and exotic aromas into a bustling modern metropolis.
I see Thais as the Italians of Asia: lovers of pleasure, of beauty, able to work without making it a religion. The right humanity, that is.
These photos represents my perception of this. A vision irregular, since I don't go around with a camera hanging from the neck at all times, but now rich of ideas, sometimes dramatic.
We are travelers able for "the forest and coast" as we used to say, and basically the city requires it. There are wealth and poverty, spirituality, and perversity, modernity and tradition, resignation and revolution, a melting pot where everything is mixed but does not melt.

PADPLACES 2.0 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON iTunes

Version 2.0 of PadPlaces is now available on iTunes for download or update.

Although many will see little change at first sight we have worked under the hood to give better performance and go a step forward in creating a veritable photo publishing platform.
If you encounter any problem in the updating process please send us a feedback!
PLEASE DELETE THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF PadPlaces App FROM YOUR iPad THEN INSTALL THE NEW ONE. 
You'll need to download the previously downloaded stories again since they preserve the cover page in this version, but you'll NOT have to pay again, of course!

First of all you will notice a dynamic presentation in the four sections of the app, with images that will introduce the most recent highlights available for download. This is as close to a magazine as we could imagine.
Until now free stories were limited to the Portfolios section while now you'll start finding free essays throughout all sections.
Portfolios section is now called Photography because will be devoted more to photo essays then to the professional portfolios presentation alone.
Videos are a very important addition too: it will take time to download them (please be patient and let the app work) but they will be a nice experience. The very new Magical Tattoo video is already available for free.
Finally, when you will start the stories already downloaded to your library you will go to the intro page rather then directly to the slideshow. I feel this is a nice touch but will require you to download the stories again when you update your app (you'll not need to pay again for purchased stories, of course).

We  keep working on giving PadPlaces a solid reality and your support will be much appreciated. Feedback, interaction and also rating this app, are essential on your side to keep this experiment in self-publishing alive!

4 NEW STORIES NOW AVAILABLE

Four news stories are now released and available on PadPlaces. Shoot between summer 2010 and January 2011 they are:

FJORDS LIGHTS: Norway

A journey through the Fjords region of Norway (from Bergen to Alesund) is not just a parade of natural grandeur, it's above all living in a gallery of changing lights and atmospheres, of colors and weather extremes.

INNSBRUCK MODERN ARCHITECTURE: Austria

Not just Austrian tradition, Christmas market, Alps landscape: Innsbruck is the surprising cradle of modern architecture in the country. Zaha Hadid and other famous names have signed this visionary way to the future.

SRI LANKA a portfolio

A journey through a country that has known recent war and tragedy but has kept it's pace toward modernization. Even too stubborn in it's determination... Sri Lanka may have lost the sub-continent magic but is still a land full of wonders..

BANGKOK CONTEMPORARY

Long forgotten are the days of the eastern capital. Today Bangkok is a modern metropolis with an incredible variety of attractions.

PADPLACES 2.0 (AND NEW STORIES) ON THE WAY

We currently working on the new version of PadPlaces.


Version 2.0 will feature some improvements:
A more interactive presentation of new stories.
The possibility to download free stories from all the app sections.
Above all it will feature videos, a work I'm producing right now.


We are also preparing some recent stories to show:
A contemporary Bangkok, a Sri Lanka portfolio, a journey on the Norwegian fjords among others.


We'll keep you posted here and on Facebook page when ready to go!