As an independent, non-academic field in our project, photography is an added value to what we do as engaged urban scholars working in highly sensitive contexts. As an art and a critical voice, the photographic work by Cristina Ferraiuolo raises questions in its own terms: it explores the unknown and the surprising features of the ‘puzzle’ of publicness in everyday life spaces, suggests lines of inquiry that are not otherwise visible to our understanding, unsettles the potential, the ‘not-yet’ of places and people caught in the middle of their doings.