Recently announced as one of All About Photos Best Modern Photographers of 2021 Francesco Gioia’s street photography are rich in colour; bathed in shadows, and punctuated by fragments of light, they are invariably atmospheric, permeating with a palpable sense of drama that perhaps speaks to his love of cinema; more specifically: “film noir, german expressionism, the new Hollywood era, and Asian cinema”.

“My photography is based on the idea of transience and that everything to me is something that you can enjoy briefly … a transitory thing. It’s this instability and fugacity of time that fascinates me … ” – FG