Extinction Book
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. More on: http://www.urbanautica.com
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species.
30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute.
More on: http://www.urbanautica.com
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Thekla and Moriana are two of the cities described by Italo Calvino in ‘The
invisible cities’. The first one, a city in continuous construction, wrapped
in an uninterrupted scaffolding. The second one, a two-dimensional city
characterized by opposite faces, the first shining, presentable,’façade’;
the other, the reverse, hidden, abandoned by aesthetic care. This series of
photographs is intended to represent a hypothetical journey to these places
through some of their infinite possible representations through images. A
journey that can be undertaken with the meaning given by Marcel Proust in
‘Remembrance of Things Past’ according to which “The only true voyage of
discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange
lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of
another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of
them beholds, that each of them is”. A journey that lends itself to two different
interpretations of time. An ‘evolutionary’ and progressive marked by the
appearance of nature until it prevails in parallel with the works of man. The
other, instead, is characterized by the circular time of an interrupted cycle of
construction, use, abandonment and reconstruction.
A journey to Thekla and Moriana
LORENZO LEONE
lorenzoleone.eu
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