In full emptiness

Peliti Associati, 2013
Published with the collaboration of the Central Institute for Catalog and Documentation
Volume by Benedetta Cestelli Guidi 
Texts by Laura Moro, Benedetta Cestelli Guidi, Antonio Di Cecco

Paperback, soft cover, cm. 20 x 22 
120 pages, 78 two-toned photographs 
€ 20.00

How can photography show  the alterations suffered by a territory, following a natural event, on which an emergency management model such as the one put in place in the Abruzzo region, after the earthquake of 6 April 2009? 

Antonio Di Cecco's photographic project starts from this question, in order to tell about the discomfort, experienced first hand, and he does it through a slow process of walking through the places he knows, which should lead to rediscover the necessary coordinates to orient oneself in a territory that has become foreign. 

The volume consists of 76 black and white photographs and a map of the territory the photographer has come across. The images describe details of a picture that is difficult to return as a whole, and therefore requires an effort of imagination by the observer; we are in Abruzzo but we could be in any other place where a project of abandonment, on the one hand, and construction on the other, take place after the natural catastrophe.

Benedetta Cestelli Guidi