2020 – The Year of COVID-19... A Photographic Journey Through 2020
COVID-19 – 2020: A Year Like No Other
It certainly hasn’t been the same year for everyone. In fact, spending several months confined to one’s home is undoubtedly very different for someone living with two or three others in a large house with a garden than it is for someone sharing a small apartment in a working-class neighborhood with five other people and no outdoor space.
And it has been a completely different year even for people living in different regions or states, given that restrictions have been extremely fluid and varied.
So I can talk about my 2020
To quote Depeche Mode, the title says it all. A year of silence, distance, and alienation. But it was also a year in which I rediscovered what truly matters to me: human relationships, friendship, and love. Professionally, it was an extremely difficult year. Personally, it was a year of enormous difficulties, but also of immense joys, thanks above all to several fantastic people. And in any case, I believe that these difficulties—which we have all experienced—due to COVID-19 and the various restrictions, should make us better realize what we need to cherish in our lives. It has certainly been an enormously contradictory year. Divided between an apparent, extremely fragile, and temporary normality, followed by long periods of alienation and isolation. Flashes of absolute beauty and painful silences. Changes in distances and in the ways we move about and experience our surroundings, whatever they may be. Changes in our perception of life and death. A year of terms used and abused. Of rhetoric and improbable hyperbole. Of grotesque characters and dangerous oversimplifications. Of empty buses and ambulances racing through the city. It’s hard to put into words, but I need to try.
My 2020, in photographs.
I hope you like it. It’s a summary. And a description of my state of mind, my soul, and the reality of Rome and the areas surrounding the city. I was fortunate enough to be able to move around more freely than many others, for work-related reasons. And I took advantage of this to continue my work on Rome. Which turned out to be quite different from usual. But as you may have read on my website, my work on Rome is also intended to have historical significance. So I couldn’t miss out on this phase.
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Dedicated to the wonderful people that 2020 brought into my life. Thank you, with all my heart!
