Via Lecco is a street in Milan where many young people between 15 and 30 years old gather in the evening. In recent years, this specific area is mainly frequented by the LGBTQ+ community, which has made it a meeting place of social gathering, perfect for people who feel the need of representation and membership.
Photographing Via Lecco cannot mean taking pictures of a place. On the contrary, it is necessary to include, in this photographic research, the people who experience this area.
This is because Via Lecco is more than a place: it is a social reality, made of people who feel the need to gather, cutting out, from their moments of leisure, all that part of population that still reserves for them looks of indignation and disapproval.
The photos that portray them, with via Lecco behind, want to be a visual window on a reality that many people still don't know and, in spite of this, keep judging, by having opinions that surely are more of a preconception.
The photos that portray them, with via Lecco behind, want to be a visual window on a reality that many people still don't know and, in spite of this, keep judging, by having opinions that surely are more of a preconception.
