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visible
cities
Visible cities is a journey through different cities on planet Earth, with chance as guide. In London, the traveler shuts himself in its phone boxes for one week to capture the city through their famous windows. In Tokyo, he photographs shadows in order to rescue what little of Japan remains in that megalopolis. A stroll through Berlin ends up leading us across the German capital in search of the color used most in the graffiti on its wall: green. And in Rome, we trace the city by number, its numbers, from the monumental raised finger on the statue of Constantine as 1 to the 99 of a slightly lit door one night in Trastavere. Another way of recounting travels.
In three of these cities, the first people to see these photos were the local police. Interrogated for taking pictures from a phone booth in London, for following and snapping a photo of a young man with the number 78 on his t-shirt in Rome, and for taking photos from the ground in Tokyo – suspected of trying to get shots of schoolgirls’ underwear - not once did the author know how to explain the "why" of his work. But the bobbies, carabinieri and agents in Tokyo all coincided in classifying the suspect as artist, a label he doesn’t much care for but which, since then, he has accepted and uses whenever it helps get him out of a police station and to suggest that perhaps art is no more than that: inexplicable before order.