Rodrigo Pais's Suburban Rome Photography at Museo di Roma in Trastevere

The Museo di Roma in Trastevere presents 'Rodrigo Pais – Abitare a Roma in periferia,' a photography exhibition curated by Guido Gambetta and Glenda Furini, running until November 13, 2016. The show features works by Rodrigo Pais (Rome, 1930–2007), who documented Rome's suburban peripheries from the 1950s to the 1990s. His anthropological lens captured the precarious lives of migrant families from southern Italy, who moved to the capital in search of opportunity. Images like 'San Basilio, 1963' show women and children collecting water at a fountain, while 'Campo Artiglio, 1958' depicts a mother clutching her children on a rubble bed. Pais's photographs originally accompanied articles in major newspapers, highlighting the struggle for housing rights in post-war Italy. The exhibition underscores how housing was a contentious issue in Rome and Italy from the post-war period through the 1990s, marked by hard-fought battles and lost memories now revived through Pais's work.