Pietro Coppa

Nato e vissuto a Roma, fotografo per antica passione.
Unmissable objects
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Unmissable objects

This images have in common that they do not tell a story, but only hint at it, and no one…
Looking a little sideways
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Looking a little sideways

My personal way of relating to the images I see and reproduce photographically is a bit more transversal in the…
Immobility. Postcards from an almost abstract place
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Immobility. Postcards from an almost abstract place

For some time now I have been feeling a sense of leaden stillness pervading our lives; here and elsewhere in…
Hellenic divertissement on the theme of Hades
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Hellenic divertissement on the theme of Hades

Images, between classical reminiscences and a pleasantly scrappy modernity, joking about the theme of Hades.
Small wheels, an elegy
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Small wheels, an elegy

The cornerstone of this work is wheels, and it seems almost a tautology; ever since they were invented in the…
Surreal games
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Surreal games

The images that make up this work, taken at different times and in different places, are united by a playful,…
Taciturn windows
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Taciturn windows

I have always loved windows, mine or those of others, I have often photographed them, fantasising about what unknown lives…
Urban landscapes
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Urban landscapes

I wanted to render this air of slight necrosis with the leaden images that make up this report, almost devoid…
The thunderstorm suddenly
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The thunderstorm suddenly

A few days ago I was near Piazza Esedra in Rome when the sky suddenly clouded over and a violent…
A certain feeling of precariousness
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A certain feeling of precariousness

The existence of men and things is afflicted, or perhaps blessed, with a high degree of precariousness; life itself is…
Absurd little messages
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Absurd little messages

Pessages or drawings that, whether intentionally or not, border on the absurd or veer into the surreal/
Invisibility in plain sight
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Invisibility in plain sight

There are people who sometimes by choice or much more often by a series of misfortunes and adversities find themselves…
Passer-by
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Passer-by

In the City, in addition to landscapes, non-places or famous and much-photographed squares, there are the passers-by: unknown people intent…
The city and the ebb: minimal places and objects.
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The city and the ebb: minimal places and objects.

At this beginning of the year 2023, I sense more clearly that the City is folding in on itself, in…
Mocking juxtapositions
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Mocking juxtapositions

When contrasting elements enter, either by chance or deliberately, into the same frame, a juxtaposition can be created that smacks…
The intimate similarity of nameless places
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The intimate similarity of nameless places

I personally have a predilection for this kind of ‘non-places’. I find that if one is fortunate enough to happen…
A slight drift: dystopian details
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A slight drift: dystopian details

Dystopian etymologically means ‘out of place’, and is used in medicine to define an organ that is not in its…
Tanned for the holidays: Christmas 2022
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Tanned for the holidays: Christmas 2022

This year-end we are all a little bit dressed up for the holidays, so why not account for it? I…
The hamster wheel, superfluous details
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The hamster wheel, superfluous details

In hamster cages, there is often a swivel, a hollow wheel fixed on two pins into which the animal slips…
The golden ape: freaks, aliens, animals, and other cheerful nightmares
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The golden ape: freaks, aliens, animals, and other cheerful nightmares

A small review of objects, people, animals, both common and not, which, due to the context in which they are…
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