Today I took a trip way down on the Prenestina (to #913 to be exact) to visit the ex-Fiorucci factory, occupied for the past few years and now dubbed Metropolitz. It’s now occupied by hundreds of low income families ranging from Rom to African to Peruvian to Italian and is undergoing a sort of artistic revolution with the help of some initiatives that I’ll get into more in the next few days when I post some street art photos that I took. For today I couldn’t help but post that I have dubbed “Still Life with Tags.” The inner core of the factory was an incredible space and I could have spent hours there....
A Walk Home
posted by Jessica
Almost seven years in Rome and even with its frustrations and annoyances, somehow walking through the city never fails to bring me some peace. It might seem impossible with the chaos of the cars and scooters,...
From the Archives &#...
posted by Jessica
There are a lot of photos that I’ve never published, either because I didn’t like them at the time or I just moved on to other topics before putting them on the blog. Looking back through my archives tonight I was struck by this image taken in San Lorenzo in February 2009. It...
Break Out
posted by Jessica
I took this photo along the via Prenestina in part to juxtapose the anomaly of the plant in the window box against the brick walk covered in graffiti and tags that literally chokes the entire wall. The owner placing it here as a little patch of green in the urban jungle that grows denser...
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