SUBPAR SUBWAY – Rome’s underground
Follow me, as we descend Dante-like into the hell of Rome’s subway system. And don’t forget to leave all hope behind, o you who enter….
Conca D’Oro train station is brand new. Dig those funky hot pink neons – disco music, anyone?
Eek a train! Would you let your loved ones anywhere near this thing?
But don’t worry: the security guards are really on their toes. They actually stopped hugging each other for a few seconds to tell me not to photograph inside the station… Picture taken through a grimy window.
The inside of the train, is thankfully in slightly better shape than the outside. No shortage of graffiti, though.
Looking through opaque windows into the next car.
Commuters in Rome.
Frazzled faces through dirty glass.
The sad look you get from riding in Rome’s metro.
I hadn’t seen a tonsured friar since i was a kid, at least thirty years ago…
If you don’t ask, you’ll never find your way out: the signs are old, faded and sometimes missing altogether. Nice concrete wall, by the way.
This one escalator ride in Rome’s San Giovanni station is so long that this gentleman had the time to read a whole article in a magazine…
I’ll spare you the details and the nasty puddles. Rome’s subway system is a disaster in the making. In ideal circumstances, it is difficult to find you way around. Just imagine trying to do it in an emergency.
Dante had Virgil to lead him around and especially out of hell, to ‘riveder le stelle’, to gaze once again upon the stars. So ends the Inferno. Best bit of prose ever written in Italian.
Alessandro Ciapanna
Love these the square format suits them so well which is strange really, but it works. Would look so good in mono too. Good work.
Thanks, Lesley.
Unfortunately black and white does not look so great with my chosen wordpress theme…
Funky subway. I actually like the graffiti on the outside of the trains. There was man in London who persistently graffitied his love for his girlfriend on the trains, and actually used that as a defence in court. All the world loves a lover, but apparently not the judge.
Oh, funky it is, thank you.
Judges are not known for their sense of humor here in Italy, either
This is great! I love the commuters in that open car doorway – looks like a shot set up for a movie or something – LOL! And I do love the second shot of the graffiti on the car. Hey, that friar looks happy despite riding the subway!
That doorway shot… i don’t know how or why, but the light turned out just amazing.
And the friar… he was all sheepish smiles to the cazy man poking the camera into his face,,,
Thanks, Ann