Marco Badiani

    Marco Badiani is the co-founder and director of The Florentine. He's better known as the magazine's in-house photographer and photo editor.

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    Foto/Industria photography biennial in Bologna

      Bologna is currently hosting Foto/Industrie, the world’s only photography biennial dedicated to industry and work through 11 exhibitions: 10 exhibitions at venues around the city centre and Anthropocene at ...

    ART + CULTURE

    B9 at Manifattura Tabacchi

      They call it B9. It’s Florence’s new spectacular venue, a contemporary piazza that opens the city to the world. Set in the sprawling former tobacco factory Manifattura Tabacchi, the ...

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    Rags are tomorrow’s riches

    Recycling is the most virtuous form of behaviour that can be adopted right now as far as style is concerned. The second dirtiest industry after oil, the fashion sector has ...

    FOOD + WINE

    Where Tuscan wine stands on social media

    Picture a scene in which a couple are gazing into one another’s eyes while sipping wine at a restaurant or outside some remote bar in the heart of Chianti. Does ...

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    Pitti Uomo 95: In Pictures

    This winter's edition sees sobriety, plus more techno looks and fabrics. Marco Badiani captures the "out of the box" theme at Pitti Uomo 95: minus-1°C brings out Nordic creativity

    FOOD + WINE

    High steaks: Regina Bistecca opens in Florence

    “Questa è una Regina Bistecca!” poet-journalist-playwright and clear Chianina fan Gabriele D’Annunzio is said to have exclaimed. (The fuzzy translation “This is a queen among steaks!” makes less of an ...

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    Signs of the times at the Italian seaside

    Not so long ago, the family seaside vacation was a time to relax, unwind and reset, a total detachment from work, regular habits and daily hangouts. It was a switch ...

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    Pitti Uomo 94: In Pictures

    Stripes are seasonal and details are everything: Marco Badiani snaps the best of the fashionista bunch at Pitti Uomo 94.

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    Brit Pack in Prato

    Mark Wallinger has always examined themes of identity and looked at concepts of power, authority, deceit and illusion, which the British artist has brought to Prato’s Centro Pecci for his ...

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    Michelangelo at the Met: in pictures

    The "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" exhibition at the Met, presents an impressive range of works by the Renaissance artist.

    THINGS TO DO

    Cinema Uffizi

    “The most beautiful cinema in the world, designed by Giorgio Vasari” is how any headline should run for Apriti Cinema. No further comment; the easiest of pieces to write. The ...

    ART + CULTURE

    The golden hour in Florence

    As calendar pages are turned from May to June, the ideal conditions are created for that extraordinary moment when Florence reaches the pinnacle of prettiness: the golden hour. It’s that ...

    THINGS TO DO

    Handle without care: Pitti Uomo 92

    "Handle without care" is a slogan that fits like a fashionable glove to Florence's fashion week, Pitti Uomo. Marco Badiani shoots the nonexistent breeze at Fortezza da Basso.

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    The miracle dance: posing in Pisa at the Leaning Tower

    Let me count the fancy ways in which visitors to Pisa’s piazza dei Miracoli try to catch hold of the world-famous tower in their photos… Even before the on-trend selfie ...

    FOOD + WINE

    Avocaderia: from Tuscany to NYC

    Touted as the “world’s first avocado bar”, Brooklyn’s Avocaderia is the brainchild of Tuscan under-30s Francesco Brachetti and Alberto Gramigni.

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    From the Cavern to the Moon, Centro Pecci

    From the Cavern to the Moon is the first step in displaying the contemporary art accrued by Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci over 30 years.

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    Inside Mattonella: at the Biscottificio Antonio Mattei

    Ever since I was a lad I’ve tried to picture what was behind the wall of blue paper bags. I would walk past the store windows of Biscottificio Antonio Mattei, ...

    FOOD + WINE

    Lunardi land in via Maggio

    SottArno, designed as the breakfast room of the B&B owned by creative couple Matteo Perduca and Betty Soldi, will soon open its foodie doors on via Maggio.

    FOOD + WINE

    Cucina 16: pop-up Korean in Florence

    So, it might be a bit out of town, but weekend nights near piazza Alberti offer an authentic slice of East Asia. Cucina 16 changes skin at dinner on Fridays ...

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    Pan con l’uva

    In Tuscany, September and October have a single sweet focus: grapes. While wine is the concentrate of the season, grapes are delicious in their own right. In traditional Tuscan recipe pan ...

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    The Michelucci invasion

    With sketches, furniture, art, magazines and even a rose garden, Fondazione Michelucci is a bricks-and-mortar tribute to the visionary who designed Santa Maria Novella railway station and the San Giovanni ...

    THINGS TO DO

    Blues Barber opens in via Cimabue

      Shaving just got hip with the opening of Blues Barber in Florence’s ‘East End’. Thanks to their stylish success to date, the expert young barbers have moved from their ...

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    EXPO-sed

    all photos by Marco BadianiSo, what’s Expo all about? The message we’ve been given is clear: Expo Milano 2015 is the world’s newest temporary theme park. Which means that it must attract and entertain. I decided to visit, so it succeeded in attracting me (

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    FLOve

      F stands for Florence, but also for the amount of light in a diaphragm opening. After all, light is what photographers harness to craft their images. Dan Marino is ...

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