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Nicola Sansone, a Neapolitan photographer, was among the protagonists of an unrepeatable season of Italian photojournalism that contributed from the 1950s to a cultural renewal that profoundly affected the world of images. For Sansone, photography has never been just a profession, but an inner need, a means to affirm one's identity and interpret reality. This vision inspired the Museum of Rome in Trastevere to dedicate a retrospective to him entitled Nicola Sansone. Photography as Freedom, hosted in the Pianoforte Rooms. The exhibition brings together about sixty black and white images, taken between the 1950s and 1960s, with shots that tell the story of America, Japan and of course Italy. All the prints, made with silver salts on baryta paper, bear witness to the photographer's attentive and sensitive gaze. The concept of freedom is the common thread of his work. Freedom to travel, to tell, to respond solely to one's own intellectual honesty. For Sansone, witnessing events did not mean bowing to editorial logic or press censorship, but maintaining an independent and critical gaze on society.