The Story Behind That Picture: "The Thorsten Overgaard Milano Photo Workshop 2017"

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Today, a little photo essay from Milano in Italy. I occasionally go to Milano to do workshops, but also now and then just to be in Milano and enjoy a charming city that is 2,400 years old!

 

Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

The next Milano workshop can be found here: Overgaard Workshop Milano.

 

Italy. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Duncan in the Overgaard Workshop in Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Katherine in the Overgaard Workshop in Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

It is not uncommon for boys and men to live with their family into their 30's. In this photo I feel I captured that spirit. This boy is not going anywhwere soon without his mama. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Ryuichi Watanabe runs the classic camera store www.newoldcamera.com with wall-to-wall Leica enthusiasm. Always worth a visit online, or when in Milano. Here he is posing with a polaroid he made of Thorsten. This boy is not going anywhwere soon without his mama. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Milano visitors. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Mr. Poulsen learning the art to hang on street corners with the camera. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Should you be so fortunate to be in Milano for the workshop, the Andrea Chénier opera will be playing on May 27.

 

A Harley Davidson parked in Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

 

Katherine in the Overgaard Workshop Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Often people of Milano is found walking the streets as if their fashion was an everyday thing. Which it happens to be, in Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

 

Youssef getting his portrait taken in the Overgaard Workshop in Milano. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Romeo and Juliet was happening in Verona, a two hour drive from Milan, and one can still go visit the balcony in a backyard where it all happened 400 years ago.

 

Restaurant Salumaio di Montenapoleone. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard

 

 

 

 

The next Milano workshop can be found here: Overgaard Workshop Milano.

Milano not your thing?
Check the other workshop locations here:
workshops.thorsten-overgaard.com

 

 

Review of Overgaard Workshops: The Workshop Video 2014

Filmed in Paris, London and Berlin, September 2013, with Leica M 240 and Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95 and Leica 21mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. Sennheiser wireless microphones. Music by Beyonce: "Credits"

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