About Color Against Concrete

Color Against Concrete is a journey into a historical moment in which physical and mental boundaries are clearly defined and aims to cancel them through the chromatic decontextualization of urban spaces and everything that composes them.

An ongoing investigation of about 200 photographs of city landscapes, where Rome is the reference playground, but there is no shortage of forays into other Italian cities such as Naples and Bari. The focus of the project is to subvert the vision of concrete - ordinary and gray - to which the gaze is subjected in the daily life of the urban context, through the magnetic force of color.

A new dimension is given back to buildings, streets and metropolitan panoramas, in other words, Color Against Concrete gives us back the possibility of traveling well beyond the established threshold. In this path the analog photographic process plays a fundamental role.

Relying on pre-exposed or pre-sensitized 35mm films, such as Lomochrome Purple, Dubble Film Stereo and Revolog, traditional colors are altered, pushed to a completely unexpected visual and sensorial level. An itinerary that is structured as much on the immediacy of the shot as on the slow progression of its processes of development, scanning and digital post-production of the image.

In this phase the material added value of the film merges with the ethereal one of the imagination. Through the relocation of the elements of the image and the tonal exaltation, the work of photographic reworking is the last stage of the journey, to reflect, distort and dream a new vision of the metropolitan context.