Photography – Italy 2024

In late July & early August of last year, my family & I travelled to Italy. It had been about seventeen years since I’d last set foot in la Città Eterna, but I soon caught my bearings.

We spent a week in Rome & a week in Florence, during some really punishingly hot weather, and (surprising no one) travel precipitated my first case of COVID. We were sweaty & grumpy & I nearly got stranded in the country (unremarkable story for another time). I miss it dearly.

Captured with a Nikon FM-2 on Kodak Portra 400 film.

A lamp post, inscribed with SPQR, on a bridge overlooking the Tiber, with two people's elongated shadows SPQR

The Tiber, with the Ponte Sisto in the background Tevere

The former offices of the Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni in the Piazza di Sant'Andrea della Valle Piazza di Sant'Andrea della Valle

A courtyard with fountain at the Basilica di San Clemente, under harsh sunlight San Clemente 01

Another angle on the fountain at the Basilica di San Clemente San Clemente 02

Merchants selling groceries & trinkets under wide parasols Campo de' Fiori

Sun-bleached walls & houses, overgrown with greenery Via Appia

Park benches & game tables under a light canopy of trees Oasis

A sun-drenched, pale building, from across the river & some foliage Basilica di San Bartolomeo all'Isola

Looking over an iron fence across the river. Ponte Palatino

The Ponte Sisto bridge through trees, with the dome of St.-Peter's in the background Ponte Sisto 01

The Tiber in the evening, with clouds gathering in the distance Dusk 01

The Ponte Sisto bridge in the evening, with many pedestrians, and clouds towering in the background Ponte Sisto 02

Another bridge, more clouds, and kiosks set up at the river's edge Dusk 02

A different river! The Arno in Florence, looking towards the Ponte Vecchio at sunset Ponte Vecchio 01

The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence, many buildings projecting out over the water Ponte Vecchio 02

The tall, narrow buildings of Florence, in golden sunset Shadows

People walking along the narrow streets of Florence, at sunset Pedestrians

The statue of Autumn, by Giovanni Caccini, on the Ponte Santa Trìnita, Florence Autumn

The works above are licensed under CC BY 4.0