SERGIO FIGLIOLIA

Outskirts

Focus is on the outskirts of Rome and its new districts. So similar to each other. So different from what foreigners think of Rome.

New residential areas with almost no public services, growing next to huge shopping malls. Desolate corners. Temporary limitations. Improvised dumps.

The lights of the lampposts are almost the only incarnation of public services. The glow in the middle of the frame, modern comet, tries somehow to capture the attention of people passing by only by chance. It is in this case an epiphany of nothing. A safe area instead, for those living in these districts. The only perimeter of light before slipping into the darkness.

These are also the boundary areas where the fight between humans and nature goes on. After every victory, every human conquest, a flag would be put up to state that victory.

The light of the lampposts is the constant and ubiquitous flag of human civilisation. This way the area is, by means of the lamppost, marked as safe, cleared, colonised, gained to human usage.

Sergio Figliolia ARPS

I was born in Salerno, Italy, in 1978, where I graduated in Electronic Engineering.

I have subsequently studied the language of photography, reportage photography and photo editing at Officine Fotografiche and post production at 10b Photography.

My work has been exhibited and featured at Fondazione Forma (Milan), “Festival dell’autore Diecilune” (Naples), Fotoleggendo 2012 (Rome), the RPS Biennial 2013 (Royal Albert Hall, London and other galleries in the UK), the 156th RPS International Print Exhibition, Le Journal de la Photographie.

I hold an Associateship (ARPS) Distinction of the Royal Photographic Society .

I have lived and worked in Italy, Hungary, Germany, the UK and Sweden and currently live in Norway.