Americana at its finest exists just across the Coronado Bay Bridge from downtown San Diego. Coronado’s annual Fourth of July Parade is a 73-year-old tradition.
For the 2022 version, photographer Salvatore Giametta staked out a spot on the Orange Avenue parade route.
San Diego Sun readers recently met Giametta. In June, he was subject of a “Living In The City” Q&A. Recall that he’s a retired San Diego civil servant who lives in Little Italy.
In 2014, he picked up a camera and has been focused on street portraiture.
“Faces and expressions convey emotion and tell stories,” Giametta says.
His photo essay on the Coronado Fourth of July Parade tells a story without words:
ABOUT SALVATORE GIAMETTA: He’s a street photographer who lives in downtown San Diego’s Little Italy. Giametta picked up a camera in 2014, wanting to take images of everyday downtown life. Parades. Marathons. Concerts. Art exhibits. Street fairs. Political marches/rallies. His weekly go-to event is the Saturday Little Italy Farmers Market. (To see more photos, go to: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.)
Ron Donoho lives and breathes the content on the San Diego Sun. He has more than two decades of local, regional and national media experience, built on a foundation of strong research, writing and editing, and crafting reported features. His broad background is hyper-locally channeled into the reporting done here on his own downtown San Diego neighborhood.
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