Cities

Cities are states of mind, mass distortions where human beings thrive and suffer, venture their souls, accept pleasures and pains as proves of reality. Alessandro Rizzi has been involved in a major project since 2003 photographing many large cities in various parts of the world with very different cultural habitats, in order to demonstrate that in the metropolis, urban architecture, street adv and contemporary life style, intangibly conditions the way in which people interrelate, their perception of their identity, and the mode in which they inhabit space. This ambitious and difficult project was from the start a “work in progress” idea, necessarily divided into experiences in various cities. In performing his work, Rizzi purposely chooses a relationship of non-belonging with the city. Text continue here…