Tommaso Sacconi: Light on | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

MonoVisions Black & White Photo Contest 2025

This series shows people in the instant of coming out of the dark or just about to vanish in it. This is the only moment that I fall in love with them. Each of the pictures is the result of minutes, sometimes hours, spent waiting for something to happen. I usually get attracted by locations first. I walk there over and over in order to study the light, how and when it changes. Then I wait for the walkers, because people are my scale for architecture. In the end I take the photos, usually many of them, as a speed camera. The result are frames of lonely walkers, icons of a urban modernity which I am entirely part of.

Diploma from Roberto Rossellini‘s Institute in cinematography and television; Degree in Architectural Science at Sapienza University of Rome. Master of International Cooperation in Barcelona. After his studies he moves to Egypt collaborating with an NGO and then to New York, where he is currently working as a photographer and cameraman.

Website: www.tommasosacconi.com

‘Light on’ was the Black & White Street Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2017