Rome as you've never seen it before

Trevi Fountain / Ignacio Pereira

19 February 2020, 11:38

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.