In carrying out this photography reportage – the first since the one led by English archaeologist J. H. Parker’s team during the second half of the 19th century – I constantly tried to focus on two aspects: photographing the monument and investigating its relationship with the city – which varies according to the area of the city crossed by a particular stretch of the wall. I was aware of a strong and basic difference between the conditions I was working in and those experienced by the photographers who worked for Parker: today the city often closes up every single space so that I found myself frequently engaged in close combat with “the walls”: they were the subject. But in many parts the walls open up, leaving space for the contemporary city and here the sudden relativity
