This exhibition – the diary of a journey in America – is the discovery or rather the rediscovery of a world often imagined but at the same time so much represented that it seems almost familiar.

The images of Massimo Sormonta – exhibited at the Black Light Gallery – were created in the summer of 1981, from New Orleans to New York, but the journey began much earlier, in Rio, along train tracks, bus roads, and airplane skies, arriving in New York and then up to Caracas, where Sormonta learned photography as a profession and a way of life. The American photos were the first completed work and the first piece of a project that consists of thousands of images and that he later called “People on the move“. With “People on the move,” the author assembled an army of bodies; young, old, beautiful, ugly, healthy or sick, sad or happy who march or rather, go. Sormonta tried to make them souls extracted from the crowd, full of personal stories that he wished to represent with affection, if not love, without moral or value judgment. His gaze is not that of an entomologist, ready to pin a cataloging needle on his passersby, but compassionate, in its meaning of sharing the passion, the pain, and the joy of living.

November 22, 2025 – January 10, 2026

opening Saturday, November 22, 2025 – 6:00 PM

Information: https://blacklightgallery.net/