Deborah Swain

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Europe / Italy / Roma

Photographer female / 56
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Rome, February 2020  / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,20/20vision,pandemic,city
Rome, February 2020
Rome, November 2020 / Street / streetphotography,pandemic,documentary,20/20vision,rome,streetsofrome,streetlife
Rome, November 2020
Rome, May 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,pandemic,documentary,city,20/20vision
Rome, May 2020
Rome, May 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,city,pandemic,20/20vision,documentary
Rome, May 2020
Rome, June 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,city,pandemic,20/20vision,documentary
Rome, June 2020
Rome, June 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,pandemic,documentary,city,rome,20/20vision
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Rome, July 2020 / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,documentary,city,candid,pandemic,20/20vision
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Rome, November 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,rome,candid,pandemic,documentary,2020vision
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Rome, December 2020 / Street / streetphotography,streetlife,streetsofrome,rome,pandemic,city,documentary,candid,20/20vision
Rome, December 2020

20/20 Vision - Pandemic City (Part 1)

A photography project dictated by the circumstances of 2020 recording the streets of Rome in suspended animation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

As last year drew to a close and I started editing a selection of the most representative images from that year, it became clear to me that I needed to separate my 2020 street photography from my earlier "unstaged tableaux vivants" and urban landscapes.

Italy endured some of the toughest Covid-19 restrictions in the world, with months of lockdown, but also periods of relative freedom of movement. The images collated here are not a political statement and neither do they represent any personal acts of rebellion: I did not leave the house during periods of national quarantine to photograph the emptiness of the city. Instead, these are the photos I took while out and about on the streets of Rome whenever it was legally possible to do so, truthfully recording everyday life unfolding around me. I had no agenda other than seeing for myself how life outside my door was actually being lived during these strange times.

The project, like the pandemic, continues …. Part 2 to follow.



Deborah Swain


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I'm Deborah Swain, a British-born creative professional and photographer based in Rome, Italy.

I'm passionate about street, social documentary, and urban landscape photography. Most of my photographs are candid street scenes - Unstaged Tableaux Vivants - but I also occasionally take street portraits.

I would like my street photograph to feel like an immersive experience, as if you are on the street with me and have just happened upon the scene. I am a walker not a stalker, so the photographs are dictated primarily by the situations I happen upon as I move rather than waiting in a specific spot for the action to come to me. I am not looking for the sensational. I believe that an intrinsic dramatic or compositional tension can often be found in images of everyday life.

I began my creative life as a painter, but my photography now is closer to the snapshot photographic aesthetic rather than pictorialism.

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