Lorenzo Catena: From Architect to the Street

<p>Lorenzo Catena designed buildings before he photographed people. In this Eyeshot 50mm conversation the Roman street photographer, co-author with Valeria Tofanelli of the sold out Eyeshot book Mareterno, explains what happened the day he watched another photographer reinterpret his own architecture, and everything that followed. In this Eyeshot 50mm interview, Lorenzo Catena talks about reading the street in thresholds and layers, choosing between color and black and white at gut level, making flash pass for natural light, the year and a half spent photographing the sea of Rome for Mareterno, why the rules of street photography are not a checklist, what the reel culture is doing to photographers, and why the future of street photography is the authenticity of the moment.<br /><br />Watch the full video interview on YouTube: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/8BasAeD5evc" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/8BasAeD5evc</a></p>