Behind the Image: Rome After Midnight

Rome in daylight is a queue. Rome at two in the morning is a set of stone corridors with one working light in each. The series exists because I could not afford to shoot it any other way — the crowds are gone and the architecture goes back to being architecture.

A 35mm lens is the wrong choice for a city like this, which is why I use it. You cannot fit the monument in, so you stop trying and photograph the corner, the wet cobbles, the gap between two buildings where the lamp reaches and then gives up.

Everything here is available light. No flash, no tripod, no second visit to get it right. If the frame did not work while I was standing there, it does not exist.

These are printed to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag in an open edition — no fixed run, no numbering. The file stays live for as long as the series stays in the collection.