In this work, I was interested in all those situations in which the illusory, transient and apparently less codified aspects of human life come to the fore, such as moments of leisure and recreation – not least because they bear similarity with the act of taking photographs. Man, on beaches, in spaces dedicated to amusement – these are the moments in which man dispenses with his everyday identity, and takes on a deliberated, unfettered and more authentic character. The stunned look that people in this series of photographs have taken on is not meant to suggest that people have become mannequins of themselves, or have ceased to exist; rather it is the notion that a man photographed is always no more than a photograph. I’ve photographed a lot of people from behind, while they look at pictures, at street maps, or walking maps; in this, as many other cases, I wanted to give the person an infinite number of possible identities, from photographer to subject, from being looked at to being an onlooker.