Présentation
La Rada di Augusta, in Sicily, is a story about the vestiges of turbo-capitalism, the north-south divide and the price of rapid progress.
Since the end of World War II, a complicated social tension has developed in Augusta Bay – around one of the biggest and most environmentally damaging petrochemical industrial complexes in Europe – between Catholicism and capitalism, mafia-like underground structures and polarising environmental activists.
The work uses photographic narratives to search for the anthropological core of Augusta’s (post-) industrial society – in the conviction that the relationship between environment and industry is far more than a question of politicians, engineers and pipelines. Augusta could be anywhere.