The exhibition "New York" by Matilde Damele is on view at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere until September 13. Matilde, a fresh graduate, traveled to New York City in 1999 to pursue her passion, photography. There she encountered a universe that, in some ways, resembled her interiority. She then embarked on a fifteen-year photographic study project, which resulted in the work displayed primarily in Rome and published in its entirety in the collection New York, 1999-2014, published by the Berlin-based DCV. Matilde Damele (1969), a photographer born in Bologna and adopted by Rome after a period in London, rediscovered a hint of the New York atmosphere in the outskirts of the capital, in Porta Maggiore. "An area that reflects my state of mind, that of a person who, as soon as she arrives, wants to leave again and struggles to belong to a place", the photographer explained during the inauguration, referring to the images of trams and bus stops in her work of Rome. Even in the pictures of New York, some men and women are seen riding public transportation or waiting for a bus in a paused state. The exhibition also includes photographs of Coney Island, a popular beach in New York City, where people sunbathe wherever they can and shelter under umbrellas when it rains—an image far removed from the glamorous portrayal of the city often seen in films and television series. The charm of these photographs lies precisely in their unconventional perspective, distant even from the narratives surrounding the collapse of the Twin Towers, an event that Damele documented in the volume Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs (2003).