WHEN IN ROME

"WHEN IN ROME" Description In 2014, I moved to Rome from San Francisco with my Italian wife; I arrived here with just a suitcase, my skateboard, an old canon AE1 camera that I was gifted from a friend before I left, and a few rolls of 35mm film. I had no idea how to operate the camera, let alone load film into it. I just knew that I had this camera and wanted to make use of it while living in Rome. Every day, instead of grabbing just my skateboard before I walked out the door, I would also grab the 35mm camera and throw a few rolls in my pocket, ready to discover what adventures awaited in Rome's topsy-turvy sampietrini streets. "When In Rome" is a 7-year analog photography project with a raw viewpoint, resulting from the experiences I have been very grateful to capture while living in this gritty, beautiful, and chaotic city. The eternal city has given me that through my viewfinder. I learned the meaning of "When in Rome, you do as the Romans do" along my photographic journey.