In Basilicata, Italy, in the 50s of the 20th century, an extensive land reform took place: many pieces of land were given to the workers. Some villages were built to be self-sufficient: they had school, cinema, church, post office, police station, prison, clinic and even train station. It was a great utopia, but after some years the small farms and the villages were almost all abandoned. Now the area is an endless wheat field, with few isolated houses, with no roads to reach them. They give life to a minimal scenery, with few signs of human activity: a house, a tree, and the sky. Nothing else.
I live in Potenza, Italy, where I work as an engineer, with an innate passion for photography. The main focus of my personal photographic research is on the man-altered landscape, where I’m always looking for traces of human activity. Even places can tell us something about people living there, beyond their appearances. My work has been exhibited in Cracow (Poland), Essex Junction (USA), Milano, Lodi, Trieste, Florence, Potenza and other places in Italy.
