{"id":2125,"date":"2023-11-23T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/urban-stories\/milan\/"},"modified":"2024-02-17T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:03:10","slug":"milan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/urban-stories\/milan\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707741987144{margin-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;]In Milan I have been many things: occasional visitor; commuter worker; hosted by friends; protagonist in spite of myself of exhausting trade fair tours-de-force; enterprising participant in conferences and seminars; over the years a permanent student for professional development.<\/p>\n<p>I have been there many times, in a hurry, without ever stopping to observe it. Indeed, suffering its incomprehensible and eternal chaos. Sighing with relief every time, in the evening, having passed the intricate beehive of the Central Station, I sank into the seat of the first train towards home.<\/p>\n<p>Then retirement gave me another Milan. Then, with the camera slung over my shoulder, I retraced the same well-known places, reappearing in a new light. Then I looked for places that I had never imagined existed, separated from the great metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeding slowly, to look, observe, photograph. The exact opposite of what happened to me in the frenetic episodes of the other life.<br \/>\nAs happens to me when I experience and photograph a place, in this case too it was the innumerable extras of that eternal theatre of the street that occupied my photographic imagination: the workers of the new professions, the inevitable tourists of the designer label, the Milanese of the new multi-ethnic gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>A young side, undoubtedly modern&#8230; and an ancient one. Like the one that appeared to me, unexpected with amazement, the day I set foot on the Naviglio Grande towpath at the Engraving Centre. But this is the next page.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;16px&#8221;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Back&#8221; color=&#8221;black&#8221; size=&#8221;sm&#8221; i_icon_fontawesome=&#8221;fas fa-arrow-alt-circle-left&#8221; add_icon=&#8221;true&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.andreacalestani.it%2Fen%2Furban-stories%2F|title:Urban%20stories|&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_masonry_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1707741863331-5960f6b2b6577303020e69ef112429df-0&#8243; include=&#8221;2086,2088,2090,2092,2094,2096,2098,2100,2102,2104,2106,2108,2110,2112,2114,2116,2118,2120,2122,2084&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707742352043{border-top-width: 3px !important;border-right-width: 3px !important;border-bottom-width: 3px !important;border-left-width: 3px !important;border-left-color: #ffffff !important;border-left-style: initial !important;border-right-color: #ffffff !important;border-right-style: initial !important;border-top-color: #ffffff !important;border-top-style: initial !important;border-bottom-color: #ffffff !important;border-bottom-style: initial !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1707741987144{margin-right: 50px !important;}&#8221;]In Milan I have been many things: occasional visitor; commuter worker;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2081,"parent":2071,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2125","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2125\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andreacalestani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}