Rome, Open City in the Eyes of Three Great Photographers
The Jubilee of Rome seen through the lens of three renowned contemporary photographers: the exhibition Open city 2025 – opening on June 25 at VIVE, Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia – has invited Paolo Pellegrin, Diana Bagnoli, and Alex Majoli to capture a unique moment for the Eternal City, a place of dialogue, transformation, and visions. A photographic journey accompanied by the videos of director Paolo Freschi, which reveal the human and artistic exploration behind the images.
Paolo Pellegrin captures this extraordinary moment through the faces of pilgrims, the pauses and expectations, and the fragments that make the city alive, spiritual, and open. From portraits of the faithful in prayer to urban landscapes in transformation, the artist’s gaze moves in search of an idea of the absolute, revealing an image of the city as
a great stage, a great theatre, seemingly accessible, but actually hidden.
Alex Majoli portrays a city that is both deeply human and profoundly symbolic, a city in constant transformation, one that invites us to reflect on what we see and how we see it.
Photography is about bringing new images into this society, where you have to question things, create a dialogue, otherwise we remain passive.
Dania Bagnoli offers an intimate and empathetic gaze, seeking to reflect the complexity and beauty of a city shaped by many communities and deep contrasts,
from the magnificence of the Vatican to a migrant community that is vibrant and rich, yet also very poor.
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