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Pandemic Place

The work depicts Piazza Vittorio in Turin, usually crowded with young people, students, all intent on sipping aperitifs and conversing, enjoying the view that this place, also called the Salotto di Torino, offers to everyone. In the image, on the other hand, it is deserted, it fully conveys the silence and the feeling we felt in one of the most critical moments of the pandemic. People are far from each other, as if they were lost, in a square very different from the usual.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2020
Date Uploaded: 09.2021
Photo Location: Turin, Italy
Camera: Redmi Note 8 Pro
Copyright: © Michele Scandurra