14.644
Almost 20 years ago, I was
flicking through my parent's wedding photographs album.
In one of the picture,
there was a young man, smiling alone. I've never seen him before, so
I asked my father about him. He told me: "This is Umberto, your
cousin; a few years after the marriage, he decided to disappear".
Nobody knows what he did,
and nobody knows where he could be today. We have just our "last
Umberto's picture", smiling behind his 70's glasses.
In 2010, I started
the project 14.644.
14.644 is the number of
people who have disappeared in Italy since 1975. Approximately 400
per year, more than one every day. Until now, none of them have been
found. The reasons for the disappearance remain undetermined, but all
of these cases fits one definition: voluntary estrangement.
On any given day, at any
given hour, anywhere, men or women decide to cut their ties with the
past, with their social and family roles, with their image.
Through
the places where these people were last seen, my photographs wish
recount the surpassing of this limit.
Texto: Ezio D'Agostino
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1 comentario :
las imágenes producen un sentimiento de soledad, confusión y desolación, y este articulo genera una gran incógnita
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