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Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Photographer
Giuseppe Cardoni
Metropolitan Fragments
Gomma Photography Grant 2025 Finalists

Gomma Photography Grant 2025

Metropolitan Fragments

Photographer

Giuseppe Cardoni

Metropolitan Fragments

14 Feb, 2026

The environment is delimited, circumscribed of the subway, with a complete absence of the external landscape that often represents a container of memories. The protagonists are absorbed in their thoughts with their heads bowed or intent on looking with the absent gaze of those who look but do not see, as if they were imprisoned in their inner world. We are almost facing an aquarium in which motionless and / or unconscious fish swim. Loneliness is almost palpable and silence seems to saturate every space of the environment in a metaphysical suspension. People anonymous, unknown, isolated, closed in themselves, unable to communicate, who despite being close to each other almost never interact with each other. The scene is still, extracted from the present and frozen out of time. (Metropolitan Fragments is an ongoing project.)

About the photographer

Giuseppe Cardoni

Lives in Umbria,Italy. He prefers B/W reportage. He is co-author, with the RAI journalist Luca Cardinalini of the photographic book “STTL La terra ti sia lieve”. With Luigi Loretoni, he published in 2008 the photo book “Miserere”, in 2011 “Gubbio, I Ceri” and in 2014 “Kovilj”. Also in 2014 he published "Boxing Notes". He has dedicated himself for some years to the photography of musical events, he is co-author of the book “I colori del Jazz” and in 2019 he has published “Jazz Notes". In 2020 he published "Life and Death - Mexican Rhapsody", in 2021 “Passion for Sport”, in 2023 “In and out of the ring” and “Metropolitan Fragments”. He has exibited his work in numerous solo and group exibitions in Italy and abroad. Winner or finalist in national and international competitions.