THE LEGEND OF THE GRAIN MOUNTAIN
AND OTHER STORIES
CONFOTOGRAFIA 2013
From the 20 to the 26 September 2013 I joined 54 Italian photographers, different by age and narrative approaches, worked in the city of L’Aquila in close contact with citizens, local associations, students, etc, to activate a shared process of observation on the landscape, a consistent method to enable a wider critical reflection on the landscape and its representation
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As a conclusion of my personal project for
Confotografia I produced a small number of visual reflections and a micro publication to contain them.
Thanks to:
Associazione Fuorivista
Associazione Segni
Guides:
Giovanni Baiocchetti
Iolanda Di Bonaventura
(Fields and Orchards), Confotografia, L’Aquila, 2014
(Fields and Orchards), Confotografia, L’Aquila, 2014
(Fields and Orchards), Confotografia, L’Aquila, 2014
(Fields and Orchards), Confotografia, L’Aquila, 2014
" During a lunchtime conversation with my guide Giovanni, and his family, I have been told about a series of fields and orchards, which after the earthquake were abandoned by the owners. They explained how it became a common habit, in the last few summers, to come back from the Sunday walks with bags full of fruits and vegetables, collected from these plants. I decided to dedicate a part of my work to these trees. In a landscape where mankind betrayed the earth, and where then the earth betrayed people, these trees and their fruits are a gift, metaphors of a natural redistribution of wealth: a novel relationship between mankind and nature."
D.