In Giovanni Chiaramonte's poetics, photography taken in medium and large format and printed by negative color plays a central role because here the technique is not an end in itself, but functional to the message it wants to convey. Immersed in a philosophical dimension that openly tends towards the spiritual, the photographer on his journey in the south of the United States goes in search of myth but more commonly encounters an indifference that displaces him, until the numerous religious signs push him to hope. This is the case for that Jewish symbol projected on the floor of the Memory of the Holocause in Miami that appears in the volume "Westword" published in 2014 by Ultreya. The photograph of Athens is, on the other hand, an important example of how Giovanni Chiaramonte understood the meaning of vision: in front of the city that expands beyond the protective wall, the photographer, as often happens in his images, observes through the gaze of others and this only apparent distancing from reality is transformed into a new and shared way of approaching it.