2015 / Book / Documnetry (Non-Pro)

Postcards from Rome

  • Photographer
    Zaira Mantovan

Last year I lived for 5 months in Rome, I'm Italian and I didn't want to see the touristic Rome but the popular Rome. Some people said to me that the capital was worsened, degraded ... So I wanted to verify with my own eyes.... The Trevi's fountain and the Coliseum are always there but I wasn't interested in showing this beautiful historical monuments that all the world knows, I wanted to show this side of Rome that isn't hidden because all the people can see it but it isn't often shown on the magazine. At the beginning I was shocked by this decline of the city, than I was fascinated and amused. This pictures are dated 2014, Rome in 2015 is the same. It's clear that Rome need to be renovated not only in architectural way, first in political and economic way, all the other aspects are a consequence.