The Feral Cats of Rome
As Dorothea Lange said, "The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera." The photo above perfectly reperesents this quote, because of the fact that the people walking around the woman don't even seem to acknowledge the fact that this moment was happening and probably just walked past without noticing her feeding one of Romes feral cats. Rome has a large feral cat population roaming its streets. But instead of the city council seeing the cats as a problem they see the cats as part of Rome's heritage. In 2001, these cats that live in the Forum, the Coliseum and Torre Argentina, where this photo was taken, were officially named as part of the city's "bio-heritage." I had the privilage of capturing this moment between the woman and the cat. This encounter between the woman and the cat is proof that some people do still have humanity in them.