The Project
This series of 12 is part of a project investigating an old main road, the “Strada Regina” (literally “Queen Road”), which leads along the west coast of Lake Como, Italy. It was historically part of a long stretch of road, which, since the Roman age, had brought forth a commercial link through which the Lombard tradesmen maintained business relations with the merchants beyond the Alps. Today, the “Via Regina SS340” (State Road No. 340) is a traffic jammed coastal road, which, starting from the city of Como, hits Ponte del Passo (Municipality of Gera Lario), the most northern point of the lake, for a length of about 60 km, following some stretches of the old commercial road and sometimes running parallel to it.
Statement
The study of the peri-urban territory is an essential part of my photographic research. Attention is focused on aspects which are mainly lateral, marginal, and minimal, of...a landscape that has been so “often seen” that it has become, by this very fact, elusive.
The photographic method used – which favours the square form – helps me to (con)strain and (con)fine the vision, facilitating an attempt to decipher a landscape which is made up of disordered structural textures and a mixture of natural elements and human imprints.
Entrada actualizada el el 23 jun de 2017
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