This shot captures two young foreign tourists, one German and one American, sitting aboard an Italian regional train. The image serves as a visual critique of the anthropological shift in contemporary mass tourism. Once, foreign travel in Italy was synonymous with both cultural and economic enrichment for the host territories; today, the months-long rampage of these newer generations across the country has turned that reality upside down. Traveling on low-cost budgets and consuming destinations superficially, this volatile youth brings no real wealth, resulting instead in degradation, disorder, and litter across public transit and historic cities. With their eyes permanently glued to their phone screens and food packaging scattered on the seats, these figures embody a predatory form of tourism that treats Italy's heritage as nothing more than a disposable, chaotic backdrop.
