Inside Out
2020
For the first two weeks of Italy’s coronavirus crisis, I chose to continue working by photographing and interviewing people locked inside their Milan homes, in compliance with the quarantine imposed by the government to fight Covid-19. To photograph these people, I left lights outside their windows, disinfecting them first, and they carried them inside. Then, from outside, I directed how to position them. I complied with all the necessary safeguards to take the photos.
Gabriele Galimberti (b 1977) is an Italian photographer who frequently lives on planes and, occasionally, in Val di Chiana (Tuscany) where he was born and raised. Gabriele’s job consists mainly of telling stories, through portraits and short stories, about people around the world, recounting their peculiarities and differences, the things they are most proud of and the belongings they surround themselves with. Social media, in all its forms, is a fundamental part of the research needed to get in touch, discover and produce these stories.
