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.