From 26 to 30 October 2018 in the mountain areas of Veneto, Trentino and Friuli in Italy but also in Austria, Croatia and part of Switzerland a strong Atlantic-origin disturbance, called VAIA, has been violently hurled over entire countries and forests, first with strong rains (fell between 700 and 800mm of water in 4 days) and then with sirocco winds that blowing between 190 and 210km/h managed to scourge entire countries and vast wooded areas, dropping 9 million trees and radically changing the conformation of the territory. The estimated damage was hundreds of millions of euros.
Barbara Zanon (b. 1979, Venice) is an Italian photojournalist and portrait photographer whose work explores intimacy, identity, and the complexity of human experience. Working professionally since 2004, she combines a documentary approach with a deeply personal visual language. Since 2009, she has been a contributor to Getty Images. Her work has been widely published internationally, including in The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, El País, Financial Times, Vogue, CNN, and Der Spiegel, among others.
