An Extraordinary Year. Italy 2020

• Photographer
  Sonia Costa
• Photo Date
  2020

Here are some photographs of two Italian cities usually overcrowded with people:Venice and Rome.In summertime Venice had somehow returned to what it once was many years ago. Without crowds of tourists poured through the narrow streets and the cruise ships that monstrously invaded the lagoon, the silent canals could finally breath and the golden beach of the Lido was peacefully in harmony with the sea. Rome,in late spring and fall, looked like certain sunny summers when the city empties itself for holidays and the sultry heat. Only few people going around along the streets or in empty squares.

Born in Northeast Italy and based between Italy and France, she graduated in Geography at La Sapienza University in Rome. Since the 1990s, she has promoted sustainable, low-impact tourism across the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and remote corners of the world. A freelance documentary and street photographer, she focuses on ordinary lives,cultural stories and contemporary issues drawn to places far from the spotlight. Awarded in several international contests,her imagines have been published in magazines and books and she exhibited her work in Italy, USA, Spain, Greece and Japan.