Appearance City

Appearance City is a photographic exploration of Naples as a shifting field of surfaces and structures, loosely haunted by the myth of Parthenope and caught between spectacle and collapse.

Appearance City began as a small, instinctive act of looking - a micro-project made while moving through Naples last summer, drifting between meals, heat, shade, and the pull of the sea.

The work is loosely inspired by the myth of Parthenope - a figure undone by desire, dissolved by longing, her body becoming the foundations of a city, Naples.

I was drawn to the idea of a place built from loss, and how a city can both hold and consume the individual.

These images sit somewhere between myth and infrastructure, between ruin and growth. They trace a place where beauty and ecological collapse coexist - a place where it often feels easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the systems that shape it.