Day 103 - Stranieri Conosciuti

'Stranieri Conosciuti: Strangers who are familiar to us' is a photo essay project for my photography class. Inspired by the Rose Man shot, I started of with the theme of photographing immigrants. What eventually emerge out of this search is a series of photographs of street peddlers of the tourist Rome: rose men, bubble gun seller, street performers, and gypsies. They are people whose gaze we often try to avert on the street, and yet amidst the place of transient tourists, it is them who becomes the familiar faces of the street.

Three weeks, 365 photographs later, here are the classic 8 that I presented on Tuesday. They were lovingly printed on A3 semi-gloss: