Pietro Coppa

Nato e vissuto a Roma, fotografo per antica passione.
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The time before Winter sets in

I wanted to collect some images to try to recount some of the atmospheres of this in-between time between summer…

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Limes, Borderlands, contact areas

There is a fine line between private, personal, hidden, and public, visible to all. And this demarcation line is transformed…

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‘O Franza o Spagna purché se magna!’

’O Franza o Spagna purché se magna!‘ so proclaimed the disenchanted Roman plebs in the 16th century, faced with the…

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Decommissioning objects: details and landscapes

Armchair and pavement. Rome, Borgo S.Angelo, October 28th 2024.There is a somewhat autumnal charm in things that have lost their…

Intimacy

The meaning of twilight, a suspended time

When the day darkens and fades into evening, there is a suspended time, a moment in which the sky is…

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Street photograpy just around the corner from my house

The images I present here have little in common with each other: the things and people who are their subjects…

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The arcane fascination of marinas

The sea has always exerted an irresistible fascination from which innumerable images of marinas have sprung in painting and photography

Surrealism

The validity of a little error

In photography, as in all arts, there are rules of composition that make images more pleasing and usable. They are…

Intimacy

Some impressions from a Finis Terrae

The images I offer here are a few travel photos from a quick, and certainly superficial, passage through Brittany this…

Intimacy

Intrusions, the prying eye of the reluctant tourist

The conscious tourist sometimes feels a little out of place, an intruder in situations and contexts that are not entirely…

Surrealism

A vague sense of unreality

In photography, a certain sense of unreality, certain atmospheres with a surreal vein, can be achieved in an infinite number…

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Underground: the daring descents and ascents

Underground, the world below, both in the real sense of a dark and hypogeal place with stairs, descents and ascents,…

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The light step of time, the present becoming past and vice versa

A few days ago, passing through Piazza delle Vaschette, in Rome just behind my house, I noticed an old Volkswagen…

Photography

Blind Leviathan, the City in the mirror

Leviathan’s mirrors. Rome, Via delle Fosse di Castello, May 21th 2024.The City is full of traffic, of traffic jams, a…

Intimacy

Fragments and quotations: an increasingly difficult city to tell

I confess that there are times when telling about my city and illustrating my relationship with it seems to become…

Other stories

Is everyone gone?

These images at first glance would appear to be a series of still lifes, of details and objects, mainly chairs,…

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May: a stunned everyday life

Here we are at the third and last chapter of the collection on the walks to Piazza Navona, not in…

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Strolling to Piazza Navona #2

RomaItalyIn this month of April I continued in my habit of strolling to Piazza Navona and back, armed with a…

Intimacy

Dead corners: places forgotten by God and men

ItalyCities are full of the crowds of natives and tourists who frequent them and sometimes deface them, but if you…

Surrealism

Funny little slightly disturbing daily nightmares

Today I don’t feel like being serious (but when ever..) so I have selected a series of images, from those…

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