Pietro Coppa

Roma Italy Hooded characters, faces covered or barely distinguishable, often shot from behind, are the crooked figures that give this collection its title.I wanted to put together a selection of images that give an account of the atmosphere of a precarious and suspended city, which is no longer fully recognisable,…

Roma, Napoli, Sicilia Italy For some time now, we have been living in a strange era in which many of the parameters we were used to in the rich countries of the West have been abruptly called into question.We took them for granted, we took them for definitive, whereas they…

Roma Italy When I walk through the city, I sometimes look up at some illuminated or half-open window that reveals and at the same time hides unknown interiors.So I would like to be a fly, something that can fly in and reveal the intimacy of others, otherwise precluded, to fill…

Strolling through the city, it is not unusual to find shop windows where the need to catch the eye by surprising is combined with substantial bad taste.

The shadows of objects or people can be distorted, and then perhaps with their monstrous shapes they whisper thoughts or hidden meanings, hidden beneath the usual appearance; and only an oblique gaze can grasp this complex ambiguity.

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