My Best Street Photos of 2023 (36 Photos)

As every year, I tried to select the best street photos I took in 2023. Just pure street photography, not Raindrop Blues nor Urban Melodies. I chose the photos according to my personal taste, so I’m not really sure about my selection (I’m not a great editor of myself!). But it’s ok, here is the gallery and I hope you will enjoy it!

I wish you the best for 2024 and I hope you can achieve all your good resolutions. Thanks for being here.

1 January: First day of the year at the Botanical Garden of Rome. Nothing great, but it was nice to see people playing with these green lights.

11 January: Finally Ostiense Station reopened (and it looks like a spaceship).

5 February: Chinese New Year’s Day. A beautiful event in Roman Chinatown. I liked to see this boy peeping the show behind a curtain.

14 February: Valentine’s Day in Trastevere, Roma. I’d like to find this couple and give them this picture!

18 February: Traditional carnival parade through the streets of my neighborhood, Garbatella.

18 February: Woman in yellow on Via Nazionale, Roma.

15 March: Street scene on a bus, in Via delle Medaglie d’Oro, Roma.

25 March: In Napoli, where the football team was about to win the Italian Serie A after 33 years the last winning.

4 April: The very first lesson of my Street Photography Workshop. I was teaching to play with urban statue, monuments and people. Lucky shot to explain that!

17 April: A girl jumping into a fountain in Rione Monti, Roma.

25 April: In Italy in this day we celebrate the liberation from nazifascism. My favorite day of the year.

9 May: Early walk in Piazza Fontana di Trevi to create a commissioned artwork. In the meanwhile, I took some street photo too!

16 May: Rome is that city where, if you want to take photos to tell where you live, you must put art in it!

10 June: Pride parade in Rome.

3 July: In Monopoli for my summer holidays. This boy made me think about Billy Elliot!

16 July: Crazy diving in Polignano a Mare.

27 July: When I am in Monopoli I like to tell a bit how is daily life in this city. It’s summer and two old ladies are looking at obituaries.

8 August: Just a fisherman, in Monopoli again. I like that the cranes and the fishing rod are in the same position.

12 August: Two tourists enjoying sunset in Portavecchia, Monopoli.

14 August: Beautiful fireworks to celebrate Madonna Day in Monopoli.

17 August: If you walk in Bari Vecchia (the old city of Bari), you can easily meet women preparing orecchiette (the typical kind of pasta of this region).

18 August: A light had fallen in the underpass of the Polignano a Mare station. A good opportunity for a shot different than usual.

27 August: Back in Roma.

28 August: A sudden rain in Piazza Navona.

31 August: Another lessons for my workshop: stay close to the subjects!

2 October: Candid street photo of a street photographer (Stefano Mirabella) taking street photos (it made me think about the movie Inception)!

2 October: In Termini Station to teach how to do a reportage to my student.

7 October: Just the window of my room. Inspired by Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri.

14 October: Genova. I tried to change the perspective to make the photo less banal. I liked the contrast between the static nature of the man sitting on the left and the dynamism of the colors that seem to slip out of the image.

15 October: Amazing dog in Genova. I love that look!

27 October: When you are in a subway and see this scene, it’s impossible to leave your camera in your pocket!

29 November: Rome is the cure for melancholy.

4 December: Back in Monopoli for some days. In winter it’s very different.

4 December: Winter sea, 10 minutes walking from my place, is something that I really miss when I am in Roma.

10 December: As I come back in Roma, I have to come back to Colosseo.

30 December: Last photo of 2023. In Sicily, by night, on the ferry that crosses the Strait of Messina.