Our dream of the Roman Walks publishing project becomes reality for the second time, with the publication of the second issue of the magazine in spring 2019. Last December, after the publication of the first issue, one of our editors warned us that the second issue of the magazine would be much more difficult than the first. Our Studio was quite amused by this statement, certain of having already climbed mountains to get Roman Walks published. Yet he was right. It is therefore with great satisfaction that the Ca ‘Art Studio Image Factory presents its readers with the second issue of our quarterly magazine of art, culture and creative photography, now out in Rome’s newsagents, book shops, municipal museums, places of tourist interest, hotels and historic shops.
Roman Walks was born as an evolution of our historical art and Creative Photography Walks (and workshops) in Rome, but is characterised by the New-Pictorialist photographic style of the Studio’s pictures, and the artistic vocation that – through Creative Thinking – finds the right tool to express the artistic soul in each and every one of us, which eventually transforms us. Here I feel it necessary to draw the readers’ attention to my comrades in this innovatory editorial experience, who I would like to thank in the following order: art director and partner of the studio Floriana Cason, editors Roberto Lozzi and Gaetano Pedullà, art historian and editorial consultant Bruna Condoleo, and philosopher Cesare De Bartolomei. Authors and photographers Livia Mazzani and Armando Moreschi, members of an eccentric Image Factory animated by original image artisans such as Sandro Lombardo, Rossana Farina, Roberto Scardoni, and Pasquale Cortese. Authors and writers Luca Verdone, Diego Mormorio, Pino Coscetta, Mia Mesty, Gianluca Morabito and Gabriella Piotti.
My thanks go to these visionaries, who – as Oscar Wilde would say – find their way by moonlight and whose punishment is seeing the dawn before the rest of the world, for having wanted to challenge – together – a way of thinking, a society, which often forgives the criminal, but never the dreamer.
Gabriel Rifilato
(caartstudio.roma@gmail.com)
