In Naples, Maradona never left. Gods fade on plaster walls, life moves past in motion blur, carrying red shopping bags and holding small hands. But Diego stays – watching over the alleys that made him immortal. I can’t wait to lead my Naples workshop group through these textured streets in May.

New Substack post – Rome, in Light. Light in Rome doesn’t just describe form. It explains it. Makes edges legible. Slows the act of looking just enough to let structure emerge. The city stays still. The light keeps moving. jeffcurto.substack.com/p/rome-in-light

My latest Substack post looks beyond the spectacle of Siena – into the quieter spaces where the city holds its memory.

Collegiata dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta - San Quirico d’Orcia, Toscana - one of the quiet, out of the way places we visit during my workshops. One space has opened in my Tuscany Photography Workshop — May 31 through June 7, 2026. www.photographitaly.com/workshops/tu... 🇮🇹 #photographitaly #tuscany

Light. Shadow. Stone. The streets of Tuscany’s hill towns are a constantly unfolding revelation. One space has opened in my Tuscany Photography Workshop — May 31 through June 7, 2026. www.photographitaly.com/workshops/tu... 🇮🇹 #photographitaly #tuscany #cortona #photographyworkshop #learnphotography

One space has opened in my Tuscany photography workshop May 31 - June 7, 2026. One week to slow down, look closely, photograph the streets, the light, the details that most people walk right past. 🇮🇹 www.photographitaly.com/workshops/tu... #tuscanyworkshop #photographyworkshop #italyphotography

One space just opened up for my June Tuscany workshop. Join me in my Italian hometown for a great week of photography.

Cortona Passeggiata – Settima My latest Substack post is the 7th in a series about my home-away-from-home of Cortona, Tuscany. I’m not there in these days, but looking forward to being back in the warmth of my adopted Tuscan home town.

My latest Substack post is Keweenaw – The Solitude of Being. Here, in winter, I look at ice and how the cold on the shore of Lake Superior reshapes everything before it ever fully freezes it.

My latest Substack post - Rome, seen through windows – glass, shadow, reflections, and the small negotiations between inside and outside. This set came from slowing down and letting the city arrive in fragments rather than scenes.

The Umbrian town of Orvieto sits high and a little apart. What stays with me is the balance between the monumental and the everyday, how easily they coexist here. These photographs and thoughts in my most recent Substack post come from walking slowly and feeling the shift from arrival to intention.

Winter has me thinking forward – to spring workshops, to Sorrento, to the languid calm of the Bay of Naples. The views, the air, the stillness of a cloister in the middle of the day. Some places warm you long before you arrive.

Just booked my April flights back to New Orleans for French Quarter Fest and I’m already thinking in color. Looking forward to great music and a city that holds on tight to light, heat, and history.

My latest Substack post brings together images and ideas about Rome – fragments of moments that live in the city’s contradictions. One minute you’re standing in front of something worn smooth by time and weather. The next, you’re distracted by the way light folds across a tablecloth.

In the grayness of a Lake Superior winter, color takes on a new dimension. Snow and ice absorb and return the atmosphere around them. Light skims the surface, never staying long.

My latest Substack post: Cortona and the lived weight of tradition - a combination of photographs and a short essay about attention, ritual, and the discipline of remembering. Archers, flags, and the moments in between.

My latest Substack post sets aside color and lets light, shadow and texture take the lead. Stripping away hue changes how the hill town of Cortona feels – less about seeing and more about sensing. Stone meets shadow, glass holds quiet light and evening lamps simply hold space.

My latest Substack post shares photographs of Italy’s Dolomite mountains and thoughts about how their vastness impacts our sense of what it means to be human.

My latest Substack post shares images and thoughts about photographing in the blindingly white towns of Italy’s Puglia region.

Rain changes Venice in a way nothing else does. The light softens, the colors deepen, and the whole place seems to ease back a notch. The melancholy that settles in isn’t sadness so much as a kind of tenderness — a reminder that beauty doesn’t always need sunlight to make itself known.

My latest post Across the Silence (Attraverso il Silenzio in Italian) features images and a video in panoramic format - an interesting departure for me. I invite you to take a look.

A shaft of late afternoon light grazes Cortona’s clock tower. It’s not terribly dramatic, but it’s the kind of moment that reminds me why I keep bringing photographers here; not for the landmarks, but for these small, passing bits of time that change the way you see. That’s the real workshop moment.

My latest Substack post presents images and ideas about the beauty of November light on the Bay of Naples. I invite you to take a look.

Water has this way of changing everything it touches. Sometimes it reveals details I’d otherwise miss; sometimes it hides them just enough to make the familiar feel a little mysterious. #PhotographItaly #ColorAndPlace #AtHomeInTime #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #water #ItalyThroughTheLens

When the Day Refuses to End We’ve passed autumn’s solstice, so the days are growing longer bit by bit. My Substack post this week is about the glory of the Tuscan landscape in those languid days of June when the warm sun never seems to set.

Italian Yellows — Some colors seem to hold time itself. These ochres and golds soak in the day, releasing warmth long after the light has moved on.Color becomes a form of memory, a way of remembering the sun. #PhotographItaly #ItalyPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive #ItalyThroughTheLens

Amazing archeological find near Siena, Tuscany. The gifts the Etruscans give us, even 2 millennia later.

The Scale of Stone My Substack post this week is about the way time, weather, and footsteps shape a staircase into a kind of record — each step both surface and story.

Sicily Blues There’s the blue of the sea, and then there are the blues that become part of a place. Some days, everything seems to fall into rhythm — color, light, texture — and as I photograph, that harmony starts to hum a little louder. #TravelPhotography #jeffcurtoitalyphotographyarchive

My latest Substack post is the 5th in an occasional series of photographs from around my adopted hometown of Cortona, Tuscany combined with thoughts about place, light and season.

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My latest Substack post, "Faces of Salt and Sun" is about fishmongers in Sicilian markets; men whose faces show lives of both hard work and pride. I hope you take a moment to look and perhaps subscribe to my Substack for weekly images and stories - free each week.

Geometry - Sicily #jeffcurtoitalyphotoarchive #sicily #sicilia

My latest Substack post has photographs and some thoughts about the strange (and slightly kitschy) beauty of Mary’s electrified halo. Take a look…

I have a new Substack post with photographs and thoughts about a unique Roman museum and how it compeled me to ask questions about what humans build and value.

I have a new Substack post about a Venetian oar-maker - one of only a few left who is practicing the craft.

My 2026 Italy Photography Workshops in Naples and Tuscany are now open for registration! Refine your photography in one of these beautiful Italian destinations.

I have a new Substack post - the 4th in a series of photographs and thoughts about the beautiful Tuscan town of Cortona. Take a look and perhaps consider subscribing for free to receive new posts each week.

Lago di Como, Lombardia - A day on the lake is always a joy. Misty waterscapes in hues of faded blue.

I have a new Substack post - photographs and thoughts about an amazingly beautiful area of Switzerland where the atmosphere is alpine but the language is Italian. Check it out and perhaps subscribe (free) to receive new posts every week.

Marzamemi, Sicilia #jeffcurtoitalyphotoarchive #sicily #sicilia

I have a new Substack post today (World Photography Day!) with thoughts and images from a visit to the British birthplace of photography. I hope you take a look and perhaps subscribe (for free) to get new posts each week.

Ombre - Sicilia #jeffcurtoitalyphotoarchive #sicily #sicilia

Vento - Scicli, Sicilia

I have a new Substack post - photographs and ideas from one of my favorite places on earth - the first in an occasional series of posts about the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.

Embracing The Present I have a new Substack post - photographs and words about the intersection of the new and the old in Italy. I hope you take the time to read it and join the other regular readers of my posts - always free every Tuesday.

I have a new Substack post - images and thoughts from Cortona, Tuscany. The third in a series.

I have a new Substack post today - photographs and thoughts from Sicily about fishing, fishermen and patience. My Substack is and will always be free to read.

This summer, I had not one, but two workshop groups in the Italian lakes of Como and Maggiore and the second of those groups finished up a week or so ago. Follow the link to see some of the great work that they did during our time together. www.photographitaly.com/2025-lakes-w...