30 images Created 31 Oct 2010
A typical town in Campania region, Italy
Battipaglia is a town in the Campania region in the South of Italy. The town is one of the many in the area destroyed by camorra (local mafia). Everywhere there are signs of urban decay, which is only the visible part of a degeneration that goes well beyond it. Camorra has taken away vital infrastructures: schools and health clinics have closed down, parks and playgrounds are unsafe or no existent. the society is plagued by problems caused by unemployment and criminality, whilst corruption unables to improve the area. Recently, the news that waste management is in the hands of camorra came afore internationally, however for years toxic waste has been dumped on this land.
Battipaglia is not an unique place in a country that is losing its battle to corruption and criminality.
This is the first part of a photographic journey that I hope would shed some light to Italy today.
Battipaglia is not an unique place in a country that is losing its battle to corruption and criminality.
This is the first part of a photographic journey that I hope would shed some light to Italy today.
