Elisa Imperi's project "Night - Deserted City" all started after she graduated. After got her degree, she had to go back in their little town and, right in the first weeks after the transfer, she begun one photographic work that took her often to come back late after dinner. Now, let's see her project!

I remember one evening in October, it will have been 10.30 p.m at most, I was alone at the wheel of my car for these deserted streets of this city. A almost new city, in which I haven't many acquaintances or friends and where I felt alone. From there I thought that "I could throw it all emotions" in my photos and try to "accept" this new reality and so I started to shoot with this woman from the red jacket, alone in the deserted streets of the night.
-Elisa Imperi

All born from that evening when I thought that perhaps, the photography, was the only "way" that I could use to accept this small (but big for me) change. The next day while I open the house moving boxes, I found a red jacket that was probably of my mother. My mind connects this with the thoughts of the previous night and so with two girls, Giulia and Valentina who live near my home, I started to take some photos during the nights.
-Elisa Imperi

In this way, I filled the time not only with photos, but I discovering parts of this city, of the territory, and I know a bit 'of people also in this city and also some local where taste a very good hot chocolate finish the shooting!
-Elisa Imperi

Oh God, I do not know. Maybe I'm too "inside" and I can't do well to "going out" to explain if I have a distinct style that differentiates me from other photographers. Perhaps we should ask at the people that follows my photographs? Often advice and discussions with other photographers or "viewers" help very much in photography. If we want to talk about big photographers, in my bedside table I have "The Fashion Picture" by Deborah Turbeville and "Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005."
-Elisa Imperi

I am the first to have still need advice, and perhaps the only advice to give is that each of us, especially in photography or other arts, never stop to learning.
-Elisa Imperi

For this project I use the Canon 5D Mark II and 50mm f. 1.8.
-Elisa Imperi

About Elisa Imperi

Elisa Imperi was born in Umbria. She approach photography as an autodidact, studying and reading books on the floors of libraries and taking photographs of the streets of her adopted city, Perugia. She photographs both digital and analog, but she prefers the latter. See more of her works on Behance or her Facebook Page.