This series centres on Napoli Femminile, based on the outskirts of Naples, and forms part of a broader investigation into gender, visibility, and cultural value. The images consider not only the athletes themselves, but the structures: physical, social, and symbolic, that shape their presence. Their stadium, distinct and separate from the city’s male team, becomes an essential visual and conceptual anchor: a site that embodies both autonomy and marginality.
This structural separation informs the tone of the photographs. Rather than spectacle or grandiosity, the images attend to quieter moments; gestures, postures, spatial relationships, where resilience and determination register subtly. The project is less concerned with documenting sport as performance than with observing how identity is negotiated within spaces historically shaped by masculine expectation.
Across the three works, the players appear not as isolated subjects but as figures in dialogue with their environment. Architectural elements act as visual counterparts to the social frameworks surrounding women’s football in Italy. These surroundings suggest both limitation and possibility, reinforcing the tension between visibility and obscurity that defines the sport’s current cultural position.
The photographs reflect a moment in which women’s football in Italy continues to assert its legitimacy, negotiating historical marginalisation while insisting on presence.
This structural separation informs the tone of the photographs. Rather than spectacle or grandiosity, the images attend to quieter moments; gestures, postures, spatial relationships, where resilience and determination register subtly. The project is less concerned with documenting sport as performance than with observing how identity is negotiated within spaces historically shaped by masculine expectation.
Across the three works, the players appear not as isolated subjects but as figures in dialogue with their environment. Architectural elements act as visual counterparts to the social frameworks surrounding women’s football in Italy. These surroundings suggest both limitation and possibility, reinforcing the tension between visibility and obscurity that defines the sport’s current cultural position.
The photographs reflect a moment in which women’s football in Italy continues to assert its legitimacy, negotiating historical marginalisation while insisting on presence.