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With over fifty years of career behind him, Albert Watson is a living legend in the world of photography. His iconic shots - from Alfred Hitchcock holding a goose to the famed 2006 portrait of Steve Jobs - have helped define the collective imagination across art, fashion, and pop culture. With more than a hundred Vogue covers, campaigns for Chanel and Prada, and works held in the world’s most prestigious museums, Watson has redefined the boundaries of photographic language, blending technical precision with creative freedom in a style that is unmistakably his own. Today, Palazzo Esposizioni presents Roma Codex, the largest exhibition ever held in Italy on his work. The show unveils a Rome far removed from clichés - captured not through its well-known monuments, but through what happens in their shadows: faces, gestures, details, and edges. For over two years, Watson wandered the city without a map, guided purely by instinct. The result is a visual journey of 200 photographs - in both black and white and color, both intimate and monumental - that portray a Rome that is alive, contradictory, and never quite the same. Roma Codex is part diary, part atlas, and part tribute to a city that continues to reveal itself, frame by frame.