Title: Officina
Location: Rome, Italy
Description: I continued the tradition this morning and brought my camera with me on my way to work, looking for things to shoot before I arrived. This shot is a doorway on via del Boschetto. As I couldn’t think of exactly how to explain it, my trusty colleague M, said the best way to describe an officina is that it’s a sort of workspace, most often for mechanics. In fact, Lanificio 159, is an ex-officina, which explains how spacious it is. Not sure how big the interior of this workspace could be though, since this area is older and the buildings smaller. Sometimes carpenters or woodworkers also have an officina where they do their work. I love this aspect of Italy, all the small shops and workspaces that pop up on the ground level of the buildings, just as they’ve been doing for thousands of years.
Photograph Copyright Jessica Stewart 
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