Pietro Coppa

A non-place is the image of something so anonymous, without any salient or interesting characteristics in itself…

Raise your hand if you've never found yourself on an autumn beach taking photos of the sea, the beached remains, the decommissioned buildings.

Roma Italy My preference in taking pictures is black and white.When I am in front of a photogram and I have to choose between color or black and white, in most cases I opt for black and white, in fact at the time of shooting I usually “see” the photo…

Roma Italy Nature sometimes reappropriates spaces that had been taken away by the overflow of the City.Then alien beings, alien to the memory of the inhabitants, begin to appear and interact in a surreal way with the City.It would seem like revenge, but perhaps it is just another of the…

Roma Italy What the images I present here, taken in different times and places, have in common is the hushed voice with which they speak.The women and men who crowd them do not shout indignantly or laugh loudly at the bizarre or painful situations or the isolation in which they…

Roma Italy Walking around Rome with a camera is undoubtedly a privilege, and it’s not the first time I’ve said so, but the question is: what kind of gaze to use?One can certainly look directly at the object of interest of the moment, and portray a documentary image, or one…

Roma Italy For some time now, the city has been pervaded by mysterious, alien presences.Groups of strange beings, one half resembling small saprophagous dinosaurs, the other half technological chimeras, gather in darkened huddles on the pavements.Humans ignore them, pretending not to see their swarming in the half-light, not to stumble…

Roma, Palermo, Messina Italy The eyes tell stories even when the lips are silent.In the series of photographs that I present here I focused on the eyes, the looks.In some I have tried to grasp the impression of fleeting relationships that arise between strangers when one meets casually without a…

Roma Italy It is great fun to watch my fellow photographers at work. I love to see their contortions, unnatural positions, and their concentration when taking pictures. And I love their inspired faces, deformed by the camera, or their vacant stare while staring at a smartphone screen (we don’t have…

Rome Italy Continuing a topic started elsewhere, to recognize what appears slightly out of place, slightly dissonant, to detect with the resulting photographic image the distortion and absurdity is for me a survival technique in this strange time. In this second series that I am presenting, objects will not be…

We live in strange times, even if every time, being unable to use hindsight, should look strange and uncertain for those who are contemporaries.

The passing of time and the sequence of historical periods is a strange business, especially in a place full of legacies of the past like Rome. It resembles an elastic band that can be stretched or released at will.

E noi non ci saremo: atmosfere vagamente raggelanti

Intravedere cautamente la fine della pandemia, senza perderne di vista le cicatrici

Impressioni notturne nel buio della pandemia

Danzare sul filo del rasoio, lievi dissonanze, leggere incongruenze per rendere l'atmosfera di questi tempi.

Il mondo alla rovescia, ricerca di normalità a Roma, in un periodo inconsueto.

Non c’è dubbio che vivere, come me, a Roma sia un privilegio, anche se questo, come ho avuto modo di dire già, costituisce anche un problema per chi fa della fotografia una passione ed un divertimento consapevole.

È passato giusto un anno da quando qui a Roma si era iniziato a percepire la gravità della situazione sanitaria.

Tempo fa un amico, fotografo anche lui, cui stavo mostrando alcune foto scattate durante quest'ultimo anno ebbe a dirmi che molte delle immagini che vedeva gli parevano reliquie, oggetti sospesi esistenti solo per se stessi ed il loro valore estetico, ma senza nessuna storia da raccontare,