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This is the new blog of Fabien Butazzi aka @fabienb.

Fabien is a Creative, a Digital Nomad, a Photographer and an Entrepreneur.
Over the last 25+ years he’s worn many hats: Creative Director, UX Lead, DesignOps Manager, Designer, Photographer, DJ & Radio Host, Public Speaker, Food-blogger… His work has won awards and has been exhibited around the world.

In a time without social media, he started as the first Italian male food-blogger and grew his blog to an impressive 50K unique visitors per day, becoming one of the first influencers to work with brands.

Today, he’s back with a new adventure and he’s inviting you to follow along on this blog and a YouTube channel.
Welcome my friend.

I offer you a unique photographic experience in London, via AirBnB

Fancy street, cityscape and night? My itinerary covers it all and I will show you how to capture that perfect moment and make it Instagram-worthy.
My goal for you is to go past the traditional postcard and see the city in a different way.
The itinerary is conceived in a way to cover all genres in any weather and I'll share the exclusive view you only get from locals.

Note: If no bookable date seems available, feel free to inquire anyway as I may still be able to accommodate you.

Check dates and availability

2022

January

14-16Athens
Blank Wall Gallery
21-31Chicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Photographer Of The Year
28-30Berlin
BBA Gallery

February

01-18Chicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Photographer Of The Year
18-20Johannesburg
FotoZA Gallery
24-26New York
Agorá Gallery
Landscape & Black and White Photographer Of The Year

March

25-27Barcelona
Valid World Hall

April

05-10Bangkok
Art & Culture Centre
16-19Manila
Modeka
29-01Budapest
PH21 Gallery

May

06-08Limassol
6x6 Centre For Photography

June

09-12Stockholm
Galleri Kontrast
30-05Hanoi
Matca

August

12-14Minneapolis
Praxis Gallery
18-20Montreal
Gallerie Gora

September

23-4 NovChicago
Bridgeport Art Center
Landscape Photographer Of The Year
30-02Philadelphia
The SPACE

October

7-9San Diego
Sparks Gallery
Travel Photographer Of The Year
28-30Barcelona
Valid World Hall

> View all exhibitions

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Nov 23

Capturing the gorgeous @mallucamerini during a #fashion #photoshoot with @streetlife_portraits for @nicodidonna.
Expect reels from this fantastic session 😊
(mua: @makeupbyoliviafiori | help: @vcphoto1, @sunnyfyre)

#model #london #photoshoot #modelphotography #londonmodels #urbanfashion #styleblogger

Nov 10

I'm looking at my feed and I can't believe how long I have let time pass between posts lately. One scroll with the thumb and you can see photos that are a year old. Being this a platform that pushes you to publish content on a daily basis, it's no surprise the account is suffering.
I'm annoyed that this is not letting me reach all of you anymore.
But I know it's part of the "game" Instagram wants everyone to play.

One reason this is how things stand with my account, is that I don't necessarily want to play by their rules.
Another, is that I kind of felt trapped in my own creativity. There are things I wanted for my feed that I was not able to achieve for several reasons and therefore I stalled. And stalled.
After some time you even forget this exists. Which by the way left me more time for family and work, so this wasn't all that bad.

Anyway, I'll post this last portrait and then I'll move on to something else.
For example I'll go back to some Travel and Street Photography, since now I'm busy organising photo tours for next year. You may have seen my Story but it's all on fabienb.blog if you missed it.

Wish I could end this saying "I'm back baby!". Back-ish, let's see

#streetlifeportraits #portraits #fashionphotography #fujifilm90

Nov 1

So, I hope y'all had a good Halloween party last night!
Here's one more from the photoshoot. Quick upload while I go to The Cure concert... Yeah, I know. Can't help it 😍
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#halloween #halloween2022 #halloweenphotoshoot #halloweenportraits #streetlife

Oct 31

Can't believe it's been a year already! I think I got used of losing track of time after going through 2020 and now it seems time just flies.
I did a fantastic Halloween photoshoot with incredible models and it still feels like only a gee months ago but it's actually Halloween again now. Where all this time went?
Mostly went at swearing at Adobe Premiere while editing my youTube video, I assume. Hence why I switched to DaVinci recently. But that's for another story...
Happy Halloween!!!
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#halloween2022 #halloween #halloweenphotoshoot #streetlifeportraits

Sep 1

What if I told you that this is not a photo of a real person? And neither a 3D model or a painting or a Photoshop artwork…?

For the first time since I created this account over 10 years ago, I’m publishing an image that is not something I created with either my camera or my copy of Photoshop.
What you are looking at, is an artwork generated by an Artificial Intelligence, simply by interpreting a few words. Not by telling it to look at an another photo and recreate it. But “imagining” what I wanted to see when I wrote down “portrait of a tattoed Asian woman with fuchsia hair with a Leica 50mm on Kodak Portra 800”. That’s it.
The AI digested the words and puked. Rainbow puke with unicorns and fairies.

This is all my latest YouTube video is about.
I went down the rabbit hole to find a new technology to be excited of, scared of, grateful for.
Could this actually make my work obsolete? Or could it sparkle my creativity to generate even more unique work?

What this can achieve is incredible. Watch my video and have your mind blown
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

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@midjourney.gallery @midjourneyartwork
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#midjourney #midjourneyartwork #midjourneyart #digitalart #midjourneyportrait #artificialintelligence #artofportrait

Aug 24

In over 10 years using Instagram, I never shared anything work-related. I always enjoyed this space for the social aspect of social media and used it to experiment and to express myself.
This portrait of actor and director @patch_bell here is not really “work” per se, as I was mainly assisting my friend @maxgiorgeschi and taking advantage of the photo session to try the @zhongyi.optics Mitakon Speedmaster 35mm f/0.95 (yes, f/0.95 - I I talk about the lens in one of my videos). But it is somewhat representative of one of the many aspects of my work as a photographer. I do take portraits in fact, and it’s one of the reasons why I have my photographic studio (others being product and food photography among others, art and of course YouTube).
But I like to assist my experienced friends as well because I can hide behind the scenes and capture beautiful unexpected moments of spontaneity. Yes, this is an unexpected moment: it is not staged in any way. And frankly, it’s the photo I personally like the most from the day.

But how would you feel if I were to share work-related photos here? Please let me know.
Thanks!

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@fujifilmuk @fujifilmx_us @fujifilmitalia
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#myfujifilmlegacy #repostmyfujifilm #fujifilmldn #portraitphotography #studioportrait

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10th September 2020

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My NEW Way to Dodge And Burn in Photoshop

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24th July 2020

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How to Edit the Milky Way in Adobe Lightroom

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28th May 2020

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I Almost Blew Up This Wordpress Blog With 1 Wrong Setting

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28th April 2020

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A fix to Adobe Lightroom presets visibility

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