This selection of photographs was taken over the course of two months, in the Spring of 2022, on weekly photowalks on and around State Street in Madison, WI.

Flavia Fontana Giusti goes to State Street every weekend to connect to interesting humans - faces, bodies, outfits, demeanours - and to make their portrait.
State Street runs between the University of Wisconsin campus and the Wisconsin State Capitol. There, there are liquor stores, beauty-parlors, rag shops, museums, bookstores, run down boutiques, construction work, and, also, sadly, a lot of empty retail space: it is a reflection of the city it sits at the center of, in just a few blocks, from the fancy to those in rags.

If you look carefully, there’s swagger everywhere.

These photographs were taken on Kodak Gold200 with a Pentax 67 camera.
Flavia develops and scans all her images herself.