Today I take you on a visit to my hometown, Rome, again. To be precise, to Serpentara, a neighbourhood not too far from mine, which I decided to include in my new work.
It will probably have been 15 years since my last visit. Everything has remained almost as I remembered, except for a few new buildings and a few new offices.
With the moped borrowed from one of my dearest friends and my drone, on a more than hot Roman January morning, I set off.
From the hill overlooking the train yard in Salaria, I made my DJI take off, an amazing view from the sky, the shape of the neighbourhood from above, I think, is almost unique. I took a lot of photos, from all possible angles, before packing up the drone and heading to the other side of the neighborhood to catch up with an old friend.
I will have to pay another visit to the neighbourhood, this time on land accompanied by my Sony.
Concrete Memory – Le Vele di Scampia
This photographic project documents the urban and social trajectory of the Vele of Scampia, one of the most controversial symbols of Italian residential architecture in the late 20th century. Through images spanning decay, abandonment, and eventual demolition, the project seeks to convey the complexity of a place too often reduced to a stereotype.
The photographs capture not only the physical decline of the Vele but also the end of a housing utopia, highlighting their historical, cultural, and symbolic value. Suspended between brutalism and institutional failure, the Vele stand as an urban scar that deserves to be remembered and understood before it is permanently erased.
I visited the Vele for the first time in September 2024, when they were still inhabited. I returned in November of the same year, after the eviction process had already begun.
