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The series of photographs capture what appear to be ‘islands of light’ at night. There is a sense of confined gloom fighting with darkness that all around turns into oblivion and mystery. This shroud of brightness envelopes all things that are built as a defense, both the physical and the light barrier. The islands of light represent US navy housing complexes and structures located nearby, in a dark and silent countryside. They are confined and isolated ‘towns’ that are built for American soldiers and their families to live all around the world. It is an interesting example of a type of modern auto-segregation for a Nation symbolic of universal freedom…

Edition of 8 +1 author’s proof / 100 x 100 cm – 40 x 40 inches
Edition of 15 + 1 author’s proof / 50 x 50 cm – 20 x 20 inches
Archival Pigment Print

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Refinery Flocks is the resulting project of the previous Refinery Flock (2006), Refinery Again (2008). It comprises a selection of the photographs of both projects plus some new photographs taken in late 2009. The project is visible here and under “Works->Refinery Flock” on the Portfolio.

Nature is able to adapt. Recently, for instance, great catastrophes, as petrol spills in the sea, did not produce, in some cases, all the predicted effects thanks to the extraordinary resilience of ecological systems. Our planet evolution, even if only in the last century heavy marked by the so called “industrial progress”, always showed an exceptional adaptation to changes.
Only in the last decades, human influence became more and more invasive. Too few years to understand complex evolution dynamics that need centuries. For sure it surprises to capture, sometimes, a certain “synergy” between the monstrous products of the Progress and natural species. This project, that starts from the utilitarian relationship between birds flocks and the
heat emitted by a Refinery, would like to investigate these “symbiotic” aspects, these precarious equilibria between industries and animals, between men made artifacts and Nature. Not with the common idea of represent how horrible are humans creations, but aiming at highlighting possible and strange harmonies.

20 Photographs

• Edition of 5 +1 author’s proof / 150×100 cm – 60×40 inches
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Simulacra is visible in higher resolutions in the Portfolio. Click here to see it in HIGH RES

Simulacra is the essay I’m working on since one year circa. Project rationale the following:

A Simulacrum. The representation of a God, an image that does not correspond exactly to reality. Modern society, Baudrillard claims, has replaced reality and meaning with symbols and signs and has become so reliant on simulacra that it has lost contact with the real world on which the simulacra are based. These photographs are, to this respect, simulacra of simulacra. Small votive altars that populate Sicilian nights, often neglected, and to some extent, more and more anachronistic. Mysterious, dilapidated, illuminated or not, abandoned, overwhelmed by galloping globalization and by general indifference.

20 Photographs printed in the following editions:

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Sichuan is visible in higher resolutions in the Portfolio. Click here to see it in HIGH RES

A violent earthquake causes thousand of victims and enormous damages. What remains are ruins and lost people. 18,522 still missing after China quake.

12 Photographs

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