Pietro Coppa

In order to dispel the rumour that Friday 17 November is a particularly inauspicious and unlucky day on which it is better not to do anything…

No one has the ability to divine the future, and Cassandra was not too popular and beloved by her fellow citizens…

Several couples of dance enthusiasts had gathered to dance in that lonely, abandoned place.

This images have in common that they do not tell a story, but only hint at it, and no one will ever know these stories, least of all the photographer.

My personal way of relating to the images I see and reproduce photographically is a bit more transversal in the choice of subjects…

For some time now I have been feeling a sense of leaden stillness pervading our lives; here and elsewhere in our part of the world…

Images, between classical reminiscences and a pleasantly scrappy modernity, joking about the theme of Hades.

The cornerstone of this work is wheels, and it seems almost a tautology; ever since they were invented in the very distant past, still lurking on the edge of prehistory.

The images that make up this work, taken at different times and in different places, are united by a playful, light-hearted and slightly surreal atmosphere.At a time that is in many ways worrying and full of war clamour on the one hand, and of alarms God knows how real and…

I have always loved windows, mine or those of others, I have often photographed them, fantasising about what unknown lives might be unfolding inside them, or what extraordinary horizons might lie outside them. The image of the window is evocative, it is a conduit between worlds: the intimate one of…

I wanted to render this air of slight necrosis with the leaden images that make up this report, almost devoid of people, in which the only protagonist in the foreground is an alien that looks like a menacing sentinel.

A few days ago I was near Piazza Esedra in Rome when the sky suddenly clouded over and a violent thunderstorm came down. Leaden light. Rome. Piazza Esedra, June 14th 2023. Lately, it has been a daily occurrence here that it rains for a few minutes and then clears up;…

The existence of men and things is afflicted, or perhaps blessed, with a high degree of precariousness; life itself is change, if only because it goes through different stages, and is nevertheless finite. No matter how hard we try to achieve stability and security, often with apparent success, in the…

Pessages or drawings that, whether intentionally or not, border on the absurd or veer into the surreal/

There are people who sometimes by choice or much more often by a series of misfortunes and adversities find themselves losing everything and living as outcasts, homeless and without income, a borderline existence on the streets of the city. In the eyes of those who pass by them, these people…

In the City, in addition to landscapes, non-places or famous and much-photographed squares, there are the passers-by: unknown people intent on doing things, or simply passing by where the photographer’s eye sees them and catches a gesture, a juxtaposition, an expression or a setting that transforms them from irrelevant ghosts…

At this beginning of the year 2023, I sense more clearly that the City is folding in on itself, in an increasingly withdrawn and closed position, that all vitality is ebbing away from it like the ebbing tide.The decisions and major events that will affect the lives of each and…

When contrasting elements enter, either by chance or deliberately, into the same frame, a juxtaposition can be created that smacks of mockery. It may be that the photographer casually picks up a surreal detail that contradicts the rest of the image, or instead he may consciously compose the photo around…

I personally have a predilection for this kind of ‘non-places’. I find that if one is fortunate enough to happen upon them and look at them with a sufficiently attentive eye, one can recognise similarities in them.

Dystopian etymologically means ‘out of place’, and is used in medicine to define an organ that is not in its correct position; this word has since acquired another meaning, especially in the literary sphere: something disturbing because it refers to a different time or space, to a concatenation of events,…