Stefano Cerio asserts photography's ability to render manifest the invisible, what is usually hidden from the eye--not, as the modernist tradition embodied by the new vision would have it, by exploiting the particular characteristics of the camera, nor, according to the lesson of photojournalism, by showing a surprising aspect of daily life, but by searching those parts of the world that only a specific and determinate photographic intentionality can bring to light. The work of Stefano Cerio fits into one of the most significant and distinctive areas in Italian photography.