Together with New York and Paris, Rome is one of the most photographed cities in the world. Going around in the city, it’s not difficult to understand why. Famous views, iconic architecture and picturesque piazzas offer plenty of great photo opportunities. And then not to speak about the life on the streets … this is a sort of wonderland for street shooters!

This gallery is a modest attempt to give a new vision of Rome, its citizens and its life on the streets.

If you look at Salgado’s black and white-images, you’ll know that everything can be shot in black and white. If you dwell over Vivian Meyer’s black and white photos – and how is it possible not to dwell over those wonderful captures??? – you’ll see that so much emotion can be captured in black and white images. These were just two b&w-shooters, but there are many others.

In this gallery I have deliberately mixed styles and genres. You’ll find views that are usually seen in colors, turned into black and white. And you’ll find people on the street – playing, resting, sleeping, doing strange and funny things.

It’s not exactly a big secret that Italy is a country in deep crisis – economically, politically and morally. It has been for many years, and it will be in years to come. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and the social system is practically absent. This is reflected in the streets of Rome where you’ll find beggars, hustlers of any kind, homeless people, musicians trying to make a living, people looking for food and stuff in waste bins and even people – well, actually an aged guy from Romania – juggling with a football in the Prati neighborhood, trying to make some hard-earned money.

I’d like to make this gallery an ongoing process. So hopefully, if I find time, energy and interesting subjects the gallery will keep growing.

A man contemplating the newspaper outside the PD offices in Via dei Giubbonari

Looking for something of value in a bin, Ottaviano zone

Two tourists enjoying the sun on the Tiber Island

A young crippled woman among the tourists at the Trevi Fountain

Checking out the phone, Via Nazionale

Homeless sleeping on the street, Lepanto zone

Campo dei Fiori

A homeless sleeping, San Lorenzo

Doing things at the wall, close to San Pietro

Having a rest in Piazza San Silvestro

Having a rest in Via del Corso

A homeless sleeping in the center of Rome

When the heat is on in Rome, behind the Pantheon

Skaters under the Music Bridge, close to the Olympic Stadium

Waiting for the train, Ottaviano Station

Waiting for the train, Lepanto Station

Jogging in Villa Doria Pamphilj

Part of Villa Doria Pamphilj

Sunset Villa Doria Pamphilj

Villa Doria Pamphilj

Villa Borghese

Villa Borghese

Enjoying Villa Borghese

Reflections Villa Ada

View over the Tiber

View over the Tiber

Shadows, Prati

View from the Music Bridge

Via Nomentana

Piazza San Pietro

Solitude at the shore of the Tiber

Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere, seen from the roof of the church

Shadows, Prati

Morning along the Tiber

Night along the Tiber

Night view over the Tiber and San Pietro

The Music Bridge

Best back of Piazza della Rotonda

Election man, Prati

Young female tourists, Piazza Torre Argentina

Patterns, close to the Quirinale

Street artist, Ottaviano zone

Street artists, Prati

Street player, Prati

Street artist

Street artist, Via del Corso

Safe SMS, center of Rome

Say Cheese!

The pope and tourists, Castel Sant'Angelo

Ice skating, Auditorium Parco della Musica

Skating, the Music Bridge

Shadow casters, Piazza Torre Argentina

Shadows on Ara Pacis

Tiber view

Monti selfie

Saint Peter's Cathedral at night

A beggar close to San Pietro

The roof top of San Pietro

Rome Marathon 1

Rome Marathon 2

Gasoline station, Olympic Stadium

San Pietro, seen from Monte Mario

Night scene at Trastevere

Restaurant scene, Trevi fountain

Restaurant scene, Trastevere

Restaurant at the Tiber river

Visiting San Pietro

Reflections, Via del Corso

Shadows, Piazza San Silvestro

The phone man, Piazza Navona

The Sant'Angelo Bridge

The Pigneto market

The Pigneto market

The Pigneto market

The Pigneto market

Pantheon

The kitchen of "Qui se magna", Pigneto

Homeless, Ottaviano zone

Playing with bubbles, Piazza del Popolo

On the Tiber

Gasometro, Ostiense

Gasometro, Ostiense

Nuns in the center of Rome, Trevi

Nuns in the center of Rome, Campo dei Fiori

Nuns in the center of Rome

Night talk, Prati

Music players, Piazza Torre Argentina

Music player

When music becomes a burden

Playing my guitar, Isola Tiberina

Music player, Jewish ghetto

Music player, Via del Corso

Music player, Castel Sant'Angelo

Music players, Borgo neighborhood

View over the Tiber

Morning joggers, Prati

Working and resting, Monti

Barber shop, Monti

Fixing the car, Monti

Café scene, Monti

Café scene, Monti

Walking the dogs, Monti

Monti

Monti

In the subway

In the subway

The Trionfale Market seen from behind

Café Mecanismo, Trastevere

Latteria, Borgo Pio

Lonely biker at Tor di Quinto

Children playing at the Jewish ghetto

Street artists, the Olympic Stadium

Silhouetts at the café at Ponte Milvio

Help!

Having a rest at the garden next to Castel Sant'Angelo

Facing a big world, Via del Corso

Galleria Borghese

View to Fori Imperiali

The Cannonball Fountain

Fiat 500

Women feeding pigeons

Father and son

EUR

The bicycle man, Borgo Pio

Curvy

Coliseum at night

Cinecittà

Ciao Anto', San Lorenzo

A historic sms

The man in the window, Campo dei Fiori

Campo dei Fiori

Campo dei Fiori

Telling stories in Campo dei Fiori

Campo dei Fiori

Piazzale Michelangelo

Shadows, close to Piazza Michelangelo

SMS man

Woman in Via dei Coronari

Ara Pacis

Reflections Ara Pacis

Ara Pacis

The bicycle path along side the Tiber

Morning atmosphere along the Tiber

The Music Bridge

Reflections in the Tiber