Come on a Night Walk through the Suburban Streets of Italy’s Brianza














For today’s Cameo we’re having 42 year-old Italian photographer Sergio Chiaramonte. Sergio shares with us Brianza Suburb, a landscape photography series shot entirely at night that explores the urban fabric of a geographical region in Northern Italy known as Brianza.
Ciao Sergio, how are you?
I’m great, thanks.
What is photography for you?
Looking for a good moment to photograph forces me to expand the idea of the “present”, both as a time measure and a conscious perception. I think of photography as a creative possibility that arises from between deeply focusing on my subject and suspending what I think I know about it.
What is Brianza Suburb about?
Brianza Suburb is my attempt to describe, through photography, one of the wealthiest and most industrialized parts of Italy since the 1950s. The places I photographed have no historic relevance, but they vividly represent the area’s past. Working at night and walking for long distances, I was able to thoroughly explore a fascinating and mysterious reality.
Where can you be found online?
Here’s my website.
Keep looking...

FotoFirst — Gender Shifts Are Terrifying American Straight White Men, Shawn Bush’s Photos Say

FotoFirst — Federico Vespignani Follows a Youth Gang of One of the World’s Most Violent Cities

Atsushi Momoi Uses His Computer’s Screensaver to Visualize How Memory Works

Sem Langendijk Documents The Squatters That Established Their Community in Amsterdam’s Docklands

FotoFirst — Michael Radford Researches the Visual Foundations of the ‘Machine of Whiteness’

FotoFirst — Yana Kononova Explores How Weather Changes Can Affect Our Mood

Indoor Voices — Hannah Altman Takes Healing Portraits of Herself with Her Mother
