Silence

• Photographer
  Massimiliano Tempesta
• Agency / Studio
  Wsp Photography
• Prize
  Bronze in Architecture / Cityscapes

On a January night in 1968 a series of tremors devastated the Belìce valley. He destroyed some cities and severely damaged others. The cities were rebuilt on new sites according to modern and visionary logic. This new concept brought the inhabitants into a state of confusion and disaffection. The new squares, the new churches, the new houses, did not have the same aggregative and social power as the old places. And so, over time, the first houses were abandoned and a progressive emptying of the valley began. A heavy and silent blanket of oblivion seems to have fallen on the inhabited centers.