In markets we act any day as buyers, sellers, workers; on markets we rely to satisfy most, if not all, of our material needs; to markets we go even to meet people. Markets forces are leveraged to increase individual utility and economic and social power. In the end, markets are places where social relationships are exchanged no less than commodities.
In these shots, the Mercato Esquilino in Roma is framed in an attempt to catch relationships between goods, people, and the urban space. Or the absence of them. Who know if, looking closely, one could even see the market’s (not so much) invisible hand.
Mercato Esquilino – Roma, 2025
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