We have to imagine that world of the late nineteenth century where photographs, recently born, were the first and only testimonies to replace the rare drawings and the many stories that narrated the grandeur of an ancient and glorious past that now presented itself only with ruins. It is among these that Sommer moves, with the rigor of an architectural photographer and the dynamism of a curious traveler, the same attitude felt by wealthy young people intent on the Grand Tour in those places recently discovered, restored, enhanced and consigned, also thanks to these photographs, to memory. In the silence that dominates the empty spaces, Sommer closes the diaphragm of his optical bench to increase the depth of field and thus create spectacular perspectives where every detail is perfectly in focus.