About the Project
Speaking about national culture, the English code is among the most intricate, most quietly defended, and most invisible to those who live inside it.
This project is a long-term anthropological portrait of English life, inspired by Kate Fox's landmark study Watching the English — but seen through a different lens entirely: an Italian one.
I moved to England from Italy, via Saudi Arabia, Texas, and Yorkshire. Like any outsider who arrives with curiosity rather than judgement, I began to notice things the English no longer see in themselves. The disciplined geometry of a queue. The meteorological small talk that is never really about weather. The pub ritual that is simultaneously informal and governed by invisible rules.
Where Kate Fox writes from the inside, I photograph from the outside. That outsider position is not a limitation — it is the project's entire point of view.
This is not street photography. This is cultural storytelling with a camera.
2025 — ongoing
