Generazione Vulcano

Unpredictability, restlessness, explosiveness are keywords with which one can describe both the condition of adolescence and that of an active volcano. How could the tumult of youth and the inquietude of volcanic activity dialogue together?

Unpredictability, restlessness, explosiveness are keywords with which one can describe both the condition of adolescence and that of an active volcano. How could the tumult of youth and the inquietude of volcanic activity dialogue together?

After photographing for more than three years the teens living on the small volcanic islands of the Aeolian archipelago in southern Italy, I wondered how to visually represent this symbolic juxtaposition. By working alongside both volcanologists and teenagers inhabiting the islands of the archipelago ( Stromboli, Vulcano and Salina ), I tried to find a way to visually represent their emotional intertwining with active and quiescent volcanoes, passing from fear, through fascination, to peaceful cohabitation. A central tension of the project lies then in the contrast between living at the mercy of unregulated phenomena and the spontaneous and free-spirited way in which young people embrace uncertainty and become a part of it, in opposition to the scientific gaze and its need to control, monitor and tame the unpredictability of eruptions.