TITLE: Night Train

Night Train is a long-term project born in 2010 and still in progress. It is a novel made of short moments, of images that tell a generation at the turn of history, that of the "millennials". A journey inside those intermediate spaces, limbo between distant and opposite lives, which find affinity only in the darkness of the premises and in the din of bulky sound systems.

Night Train tells the unvarnished reality. It shows ten years of changes without intellectual or sociological interpretations; the evolution of a society in the way of conceiving and living through the night, through clubs, music, sex and the relationship with excess. All on the same train without stops, the perpetual flow of a constant mutation.
Night Train is a journey of freedom and perdition, from the bowels of Roman nights, in a temporal space of sin and redemption, where one can be oneself or hide oneself, in alcohol, in the chemistry of drugs, in promiscuous sexuality, in forgetfulness, in falling in love, in allowing oneself, in a sincere fiction, in a reality made of intermittences.

I am suffering from Nictophilia, a strange and profound relationship with the night. For ten long years I have been a participant in a journey, becoming an integral part of that worldly and perverse fabric within the capital clubbing; in the people who have crossed it, in the stories that have been intertwined. For a decade I photographed the night, that of stroboscopic and long drinks, I met absurd characters and unpredictable personalities through a thousand pupils dilated by darkness and life.

AUTHOR: Fabio Germinario (Italy)

Fabio Germinario (Rome, 1987) is an independent photojournalist.
Through travel, he has shaped his identity and found in documentary photography the language to explore the connection between people and their environment.

His work focuses on social and cultural narratives, told with an intimate and respectful gaze that reveals the authenticity and complexity of the stories he encounters.

He has developed projects in several countries: In Japan, documenting capsule hotels and their social role since the 70s (Single Portion Life), as well as the centuries-old tradition of sumo (Training Sumo); and in the Philippines, portraying life in marginalized urban areas (Barangay Happy Land-Tenement Town) and the underground world of cockfighting(Topada).

In Italy, since 2010, he has been working on a long-term project about Rome’s nightlife, a visual exploration of the night as a refuge, a mirror, and a stage for human relationships (Night Train, 2010–ongoing).

Between 2021 and 2023, he followed Måneskin during their international rise, a journey that deeply influenced his way of depicting the connection between artists, stage, and audience.

Alongside his documentary work, he continues possopagareconcarta (2021–ongoing), a more diaristic and instinctive project, a visual flow collecting fragments of everyday life without judgment.

His work has appeared in Vogue Italia and Vogue Japan, Billboard Italia, Rolling Stone, The Big Issue, NME, Kerrang!, V Magazine, IQ, Cosmopolitan, The Guardian, Inrock, and Rockin’On Japan.

His photographs have been shown in group exhibitions and recognized in international awards such as the Moscow International Photo Awards, Annual Photography Awards, Monovisions Photography Awards, and the Italian Street Photo Festival.

In 2025, he embarked on a research journey in India, focusing on the dynamics between communities, spirituality, and contemporary daily life, developing new documentary projects that are still evolving.