Reflections
© Francesco GioiaThese photographs move between layers, glass, shadow, light where the outside world folds into the inside one. Reflections blur the line between what is seen and what is felt: silhouettes dissolve, colours bleed, and surfaces become stories.
There is no clear boundary here. The everyday becomes strange, intimate, ambiguous. Reflections is not about what things are, but what they seem to be.
Brief, shimmering moments where the world reveals its softest, most elusive side.
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