Trevi Fountain / Ignacio Pereira
Trevi Fountain / Ignacio Pereira

Madrid-based creative photographer Ignacio Pereira travels the world in search of megacities to offer a different vision of reality, capturing spaces full of people and then emptying them and telling the story of a single protagonist. In each photograph there is a mysterious person who walks alone through the empty streets.

After starting the project in Madrid and moving on to capture London, Tokyo, New York and Istanbul, now it's Rome's turn: Piazza di Spagna, the Trevi Fountain, Piazza Navona, the Colosseum and the Vatican as you've never seen them before. "It's easy to imagine a deserted beach or forest, but a big city?", says Ignacio Pereira.

Let's have a look at what Rome, the eternal city usually bustling with tourists, looks like when it's empty

The Colosseum 

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira

St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira

Piazza di Spagna

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira

Altare della Patria

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira

Piazza Navona

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira

Castel Sant'Angelo

Ignacio Pereira
Ignacio Pereira