Italy—a collection by Sebastian Gonzalez

This series grew out of time spent photographing in Spain and noticing how brief intervals of quiet survive inside busy public places. I tried to follow that quietness, watching what happens when a person pauses long enough for the space around them to register.

Five photographs center on a single figure: a narrow alley held in shade, an open plaza with sound implied but unseen, a courtyard soaking in late sun. When the frame has space to breathe, stillness leaks from the subject into stone, pavement, air. I want the viewer to read solitude not only in posture but in architecture and light.

Another photograph looks up. Two black birds cut across a blue field of sky over the landscape. They travel together but keep their distance, constantly ebbing and flowing. That relationship of near and apart speaks.

This series studies solitary time, the brief interval when outside noise falls away and place becomes part of thought. These photographs are notes from those pauses.