This work originates from the homonymous book published in 2021 by Pneumatica, an independent publishing house founded by Massimiliano Tommaso Rezza himself.
As in the book, the exhibition created for Castelnuovo Fotografia emphasizes the ambiguous nature of the photograph, its conventions and the social practices influencing photographic language.

The choice of framing, selecting a subject, and using a particular style are not neutral actions, but are glaring signs and symptoms of photographic automatisms, conjectures, ideas and political views that affect the outcome of any photographic recording.
Starting from five photographs that the author himself took of “an audience” during a public outdoor event in Berlin, Rezza made enlargements which bring out the physiognomies of the individuals in the crowd.
While in the generic form/name/idea “public” – both as a concept and visual convention – individuals remain undistinguished, the enlargements reveal faces and features belonging to specific individuals.