All Roads Lead to Milan

Photographer

mauro scarfone

Category

Architecture Photography - Cityscapes

Company

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2026

Country / Region:

Italy

“ARLM” is a photographic journey through the main access routes of a city in constant evolution.Milan, if you look closely, is a small city. Its beating heart is not limited to the elegant streets of the center, it is also defined – and perhaps above all – by what surrounds it.The project explores its outer edges: those roads and ring roads that once marked the border between the countryside and the metropolis, and which now act as gateways to uncertain and often fragmented urban realities.These are not just transit routes, but symbolic frontiers where identities change and the true complexity of the city emerges. Through the contrasts between futuristic developments and abandoned structures, elegant shopping centers and abandoned sidewalks, the images trace a melancholic, ironic Milan far from the glossy stereotype of the fashion capital. This work is a reflection on urban transformation: an invitation to reflect on what the edges of a city reveal about its heart

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