There’s a map you won’t find on Google Maps, nor on the charts of the IGM. It’s made of gazes, distances, and minimal movements. Photographer Simone Perrone has drawn it with his photographic eye in the project La geografia umana, a series that focuses on the human being not for who they are, but for how they move and inhabit time and space.
Perrone observes, with discretion and sensitivity, the postures, habits, and small gestures that often go unnoticed. His images don’t aim to tell precise stories but instead suggest a poetics of the everyday: each photograph is a point of contact, a fleeting intersection between the body and its context. The result is an inner map that speaks more of emotions than geography.
In his photos, it’s not so much about the places, but the presences. Simple actions – someone waiting, walking, looking – become full of meaning, as if they were traces left by chance that, to a careful eye, reveal silent geometries, intimate logics, and collective dynamics. It’s as if the ordinary, through Perrone’s lens, ceases to be ordinary for a moment and becomes visual poetry.
La geografia umana by Simone Perrone is an investigation, but also an invitation: to better observe what surrounds us, to listen to the silences between actions, to discover the beauty in the way we inhabit the world.
