Meridian topography

In the wake of Franco Cassano’s Il Pensiero meridiano, the work investigates, in documentary style, a lesser or marginal Apulia, southern Italy, which captures the landscape ignored by the commercial communication associated with mass summer tourism.

Meridian topography is a medium and large format film photographic project, started in 2009 and still ongoing. In the wake of Franco Cassano’s Il Pensiero meridiano, the work investigates, in documentary style, a lesser or marginal Apulia, a region in southern Italy, which captures the landscape, ignored by the official and commercial communication associated with mass summer tourism. Photographs are taken along service and slip roads; places where the symbols of the ancient rural world increasingly collide with the infrastructures of new development, linked to the seasonal and intense exploitation of the territory. Meridian topography is a bittersweet reflection on a territory that too quickly turned to mass tourism, losing sight of the risks how such a rapid and uncontrolled expansion can impact on the local environment and culture. Only the poor beasts absorb in astonishment the alienation caused by the change in their natural environment.

Meridian topography is published in the winter issue of Fotofilmic JRNL 15, edited by Milo Montelli (Skinnerbox), January 2023.

Meridian topography is shortlisted in the Urbanautia Institute Awards 2022 for Anthropology and Territories category.

Meridian topography was published in the first volume of the collection "The Landscape" 2022, published by The BESTSELECTED Project.

Meridian topography was exhibited at the Collateral Maris Festival in Vieste (Italy), from 22 June to 4 July 2023.

Meridian topography was selected by a scientific committee created by Formica Lab and chaired by Rosy Santella, web photo editor of the magazine Internazionale and exhibited at the Paesaggi | affinità e divergenze Festival from 1 to 3 September 2023 in Cuneo (Italy).