Photograph 005 · Original ArchiveNaples · Quartieri Spagnoli · 2010

Laundry

Sometimes a city tells its story without showing a face.

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Illuminated laundry suspended between buildings in Naples' Quartieri Spagnoli at night
Naples · Quartieri Spagnoli — 2010 · Photograph © Andrea Morel · Personal archive
Interpretation

In the dark, the laundry almost stops being an everyday object.

It becomes presence, colour, small traces of lives we cannot see.

A city can also tell its story through what it leaves suspended above our heads.

THREAD · CITIES WE CARRY

Cities leave traces even without showing themselves.

Sometimes what remains suspended above our heads is enough.

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