Vedute Romane
Rome during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
A suspended city observed in silence, where space becomes dominant and human presence is reduced to a minimal trace.
Developed as a limited-edition photobook.
Vedute Romane was developed during the first lockdown of 2020, when the city became an empty structure rather than a living organism. The project is not concerned with documenting an exceptional moment, but with observing how space changes when its usual functions are removed.
While the city appears largely deserted, traces of human presence remain visible throughout the images — reduced in scale, fragmented, and never central. Streets, buildings and public areas are treated as neutral elements, stripped of narrative and activity, where the environment becomes the primary subject and the human figure functions only as a measure of absence.
The work was later developed as a limited photobook, conceived as a continuous visual sequence rather than a collection of individual images.