Oggi è la festa di... (Today is .... Party)

In the last ten years, birthday parties have changed a lot for kids living in Rome. When I was a kid, we used to celebrate birthdays in our parents' house, with a small group of friends constantly monitored by adults. Nowadays, the typical party takes place in small playgrounds, where everything is childproof and kids can have fun and play with few rules and minimal adult supervision. This change in habits implies a change in the way kids will remember their birthdays, that will always be linked to this kind of places and to the colors and images used there. This work aims at describing the esthetics of these parks and therefore the visual memories kids will have of their birthdays. The photos were shot in a number of playgrounds in Rome city area.