From China To Italy by Motorcycle: The Story
Language: English 
Novel – diary - 
With inserts of sketches about the situations and adventures lived.
Pages: 288 

The Story of The Beginning. 
After living in Shanghai for 5 years, Stefano, photographer and author, fulfills his dream: to ride back home, in Italy, by motorcycle. A trip of almost five months and 25,000 km through China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy. 
Not just an adventure, but a journey through five of the most beautiful civilizations ever existed and through 4 of the main religious heritages of the world. All of this during a very sensitive historical time in the Central Asian region, a few months after the attack to the Twin Towers in NY.
In his book the author will make the readers live his experience, his feelings and gain a better understanding of the actual context through the adventures, the unusual encounters and different point of views of what has, and still today is happening in the countries he crossed.
Stefano explains: “The more my journey was evolving, the more I realized how it was becoming a testimony of a different perspective of the current events and of aspects often shadowed by the news of the ongoing wars. This journey also allowed me to witness the struggle of these cultures in entering the third millennium at the same pace as the more developed countries.”

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行者無休
從意大利到中國的騎行者故事

语言:英语 
小说 - 日记 - 
随书附有插图描述相关状况和冒险生活
页数:288页
攝影師兼作家馬濟寧在上海長居五年後,終於完成夢想:由上海騎摩托返回家鄉——意大利,全程五個月,騎行兩萬五千公里,跨越中國、巴基斯坦、伊朗、土耳其、希臘及意大利。
這不只是一個歷險故事,而是橫跨五大古代璀璨文明發源地,穿越世界四大宗教古蹟的旅行盛宴。整場騎行旅程在敏感的中亞歷史時期中度過,幾個月後就發生了紐約的911雙子塔事件。
書中,作者的文字帶領讀者踏上這次騎行之旅,讀者彷如親歷其境,感受到作者的情感變化之餘,更能透徹地感受到整體環境;途中發生各種不尋常的故事,因而衍生了截然不同的文化觀點與角度,而這些點點滴滴至今還在這幾個國家中重複上演。

馬濟寧覺得,“旅程走得越深越遠,看到的越多,我就越能感受到,自己彷彿正在見證整個社會文化的變遷,現代文明中發生的事件其實還有眾多不同的角度,而新聞報導戰爭消息是竟是如何被建構與陰影化,標示著這些國度的文化正在不斷掙扎求全,追趕已發展國家,希望與之一起並肩邁進第三個千禧年代。

From China To Italy by Motorcycle: The Story
Language: English 
Novel – diary - 
With inserts of sketches about the situations and adventures lived.
Pages: 288 

The Story of The Beginning. 
After living in Shanghai for 5 years, Stefano, photographer and author, fulfills his dream: to ride back home, in Italy, by motorcycle. A trip of almost five months and 25,000 km through China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy. 
Not just an adventure, but a journey through five of the most beautiful civilizations ever existed and through 4 of the main religious heritages of the world. All of this during a very sensitive historical time in the Central Asian region, a few months after the attack to the Twin Towers in NY.
In his book the author will make the readers live his experience, his feelings and gain a better understanding of the actual context through the adventures, the unusual encounters and different point of views of what has, and still today is happening in the countries he crossed.
Stefano explains: “The more my journey was evolving, the more I realized how it was becoming a testimony of a different perspective of the current events and of aspects often shadowed by the news of the ongoing wars. This journey also allowed me to witness the struggle of these cultures in entering the third millennium at the same pace as the more developed countries.”

From China to Italy Photographic book
Language: English
The Photography book of The Beginning.
All in colors.

The story of a dream through the images of a journey.
This book represents a collection of the best photographs among the thousands taken by Stefano Mangini during his 25,000 kilometers long journey.
With the intent to guide the reader through the emotions, people and images of the areas crossed, the book is structure as the journey itself, where the photographs and the sessions covering China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Greece and Italy are presented with text by the author on the adventures, encounter, feeling and observations of these sometimes very much troubled countries.

Dalla Cina all”Italia in Moto CatalTuesday della mostra fotografica
Language: Italian
Libro fotografico
Bianco e nero con inserti a colore.

La storia di un sogno attraverso le immagini di un viaggio.
Questo libro raccoglie le migliori tra le migliaia di fotografie scattate da Stefano Mangini lungo i 25,000 chilometri del suo percorso.
Volendo far vivere ai lettori le emozioni, la gente e le immagini delle terre attraversate, queso libro e’ strutturato come il viaggio stesso, dove le foto e le sessioni dedicate alla Cina, Pakistan, Iran, Turchia, Grecia ed Italia sono arricchite con testi dell’autore sulle avventure, gli incontri, le sensazioni e le osservazioni su questi paesi a volte allo sbando.

From China to Italy Photographic book
Past Photo exhibitions

June 2003– Lavagna, Italy: Palazzo Franzoni, City Art center
January 2004- Milan, Italy: Bocconi University
March 2004- Varallo Italy: City Art Museum
November 2004- Milan, Italy: SDABocconi Business School
April – May 2007- Hong Kong: Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
May 17, 2007- Hong Kong: Diocesan Boys’ School
June 12, 2007- Hong Kong: Chinese international School
September 15-October 7, 2007- Hong Kong: Foreign Correspondents Club

Time Stamp. The Forgotten China
Art Book
Hard Cover with Case Cover in silk fabric
Art Paper
200 pages 28 x 28 cm

This book is born from a love for that vast country called China and from the convergence of two perspectives on photography as a tool to transmit memory. This book originates from a past that is both distant and recent. It comes from the experiences of two travelers. Italian photographer Stefano Mangini who traveled across, and has lived in China since 1997 and Luigi Piovano whose journey to China took place between 1900 and 1905, at the dawn of photography.
The idea to combine the old with the new enables comparisons that are charged with surprising similarities and striking contradictions. Many of the photographs seem to share a bond that prevails over time and space and present the viewer with an image of China unchanged—even if on the surface these images are often deceptive and present unforeseen turns with a sense of smoke and mirrors.
The texts and the photographs reveal aspects of the country that are often ignored by the media. This is a true image of China, unknown and vital, introduced in a way that brings out aspects of tradition and of the modernism inherent in a civilization that is thousands of years old yet remains mostly a mystery to the west.

Time Stamp. The Forgotten China
Past Photo exhibitions

July 2009– Hong Kong: Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre
July 2009- Hong Kong: Central Plaza
March 2010- Hong Kong: Elements