Brussels is doing its best to guarantee his return to office. “Berlusconi in exile.” Via Beroldo, Milano. August, 2011.

A Shepard Fairey doubleshot. My only advice would be to insert the title “Despair” on the cover of Rolling Stone, in place of “Silvio.”

I realize it won’t  fit as well on top of il Tricolore. However, I prefer to think of these great magazine covers as though they were a pair.

Mobile phone photo. Malpensa airport giftshop, Milano, November 2009.

Milano, June 2009.

For someone who died in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to exercise an enormous shadow over Italy. Wherever we were – Rome, Bologna, Florence – flyers inevitably found new ways to repurpose his name.

In this instance, the subject was Pasolini himself. Advertisement for a documentary about the late leftwing director at the Cox 18 spazio sociale. Casa occupata Via Dei Transiti T28 door, Milano, January 2010.

Egypt is often associated with the color yellow. Viale Monza, March 010.

Syria brands itself as a tourist destination. Piazzale Loreto tube station, 02/10.

In Milano, couscous is frequently found on pizzeria menus. Loreto, 01/10.

Duomo tube station, Milano. February 2010.

Elderly woman, kneeling in the rain. Navigli bridge, Milano. January 010.

The weather is better downtown. Begging, Corso Buenos Aires. March 010.

Flyer for a concert commemorating the killing of 11 Carabinieri in Nassiriya, Iraq in November 2003. Piazzale Loreto, Milano, November 2009.

Migrant gang signature, Via Pietro Crespi.

Garage door mix, southeastern Milan.

Trotter Park wall, near Via Padova.

Photos taken January 2010

Thai-themed massage parlors can be found throughout the city. Viale Monza, Christmas day, 2009.