TITLE: Andropy/New York

Andropy is a neologism synthesizing the Greek term for "human being" (ánthrōpos) and "entropy," the drift toward disorder. It defines an irreversible tendency of the landscape to bear the indelible marks of its inhabitants. This phenomenon is neither mere degradation nor conscious transformation; rather, it represents a territory that—under human pressure—acquires an unforeseen and uncontrollable order.
New York City, the subject of this project, serves as the preeminent site of andropy. The "vertical city," the world’s third most expensive metropolis, and home to the most recognizable skyline, is here captured at its margins. It is a stratified city, where human action is deposited across billboards, graffiti, cluttered architecture, and abandoned corners, all coexisting without hierarchy. When the human figure appears in these photographs, it is never the subject but rather a unit of measurement—a scale that reveals the true dimension of the andropic built environment. These are minimal figures within a landscape that contains and surpasses them, involuntary witnesses to an order that no one designed.

AUTHOR: Pietro Marini (Italy)

I'm an amateur photographer born and raised in Verona, Italy. I define myself as a street photographer in a broad and contemporary sense: I consider the street not simply as a place, but as a dynamic field in which human behavior, architectural form, and environmental conditions intertwine. My work investigates the relationship between built environments and traces of human presence, primarily through a black-and-white visual language that favors structure, contrast, and the abstraction of everyday scenes.