Although he was quite capable, as in his photo-essays, of depicting the world as it appears, Pino Settanni had been too deeply influenced by his knowledge of avant-garde works to fail to carve out a personal creative space within which to sublimate reality. At times he works in a manner that might be described as more traditional, as in the case of the beautiful shot taken in Naples, where the long, narrow street becomes a world of its own, made up of footsteps, voices and vehicles rumbling past. The diptych, also shot in Naples, is particularly interesting as it reveals Settanni’s working method: he presents the classic colour image of the same subject alongside a black-and-white version, on which – as if feeling a longing for colour – he intervenes with small but significant brushstrokes of colour.