catch them all

“CATCH THEM ALL” is a photographic project that employs digital compositing as a critical tool to investigate the relationship between architecture and urban space within the city of Rome.

Through a process of deconstruction and recontextualization, iconic buildings and architectural fragments are extracted from their original environments, miniaturized, and placed within constructed visual compositions.
This operation removes architecture from its functional role and real scale, transforming it into a formal and symbolic element, an object of observation and reinterpretation.

The loss of spatial and dimensional references produces a perceptual short circuit that questions notions of monumentality, identity, and permanence.
Isolated and suspended within controlled visual settings, the architectural forms acquire an almost collectible quality, exposing the mechanisms through which the city is selected, preserved,
or, conversely, forgotten.

The project unfolds as a reflection on the evolution of contemporary urban architecture and the processes that shape the city’s transformation.
In particular, “CATCH THEM ALL” addresses the dynamics of urban expansion and the fate of numerous buildings in Rome, structures that are increasingly abandoned or marginalized, highlighting the tension between preservation, consumption, and the obsolescence of urban space.