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The splendor of Carnevale in Venice

Monday 5 February 2018

"There are few things in Italy as soaked in the aura of tradition and pageantry as the Carnevale di Venezia, a festival of make-believe that has unfolded along the canals of the northern city for nearly a thousand years," writes Filippo Monteforte, an AFP photographer based in Rome who finally got to cover the Carnival after some 20 years in the business.

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Capturing the Christmas spirit... again

Thursday 24 December 2015

Every year AFP photographers spend the weeks before Christmas looking for those perfect, offbeat, funny shots to illustrate the holiday season. No place is there more expectation to produce such shots than in Rome.

You may think that having to do the same thing every December, year in and year out, would get boring or repetitive. No so, explains AFP’s Rome-based photographer Filippo Monteforte.

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