In a world of celebrity injunctions and increasingly strict privacy laws, it can be difficult for street photographers to assert their creativity, argues Diego Bardone.

Based in Milan, the 52-year-old has been documenting his home city for the past nine years.

For his recent project, “Faceless: An Ode to Privacy Laws”, Bardone built up a series of candid shots of strangers – their identities obscured – making for a poignant yet playful reflection on human identity.

“Mine is a daily diary,” he says, “a tribute to those often unaware actors whom I have the good fortune to meet during my lonely walks in Milan.”

“It’s like I see myself in a sort of virtual mirror:

I’m every single one of them, they are my wandering cheerfulness becoming photography.”

Diego Bardone.

Source: Faceless: The street photography of Diego Bardone | Photography | Culture | The Independent