BOOKS

SOMEWHERE, FAR AWAY

With her book Somewhere, far away, Pietribiasi returns to an essential part of the “Building sites and countries” project on the origin of her research into places of silence: abandoned building sites, illegal constructions, closed mines, and abandoned houses. Begun in 2000, the project anticipates a trend that spread among photographers in the following years, that of photographing what has been forgotten.

“In terms of the photographic part of the research, ‘Building sites and countries’, I think I can say that my position is as a receiving station. When I take a photograph, there is a kind of exchange and communication between me and the place. I’m aware of the “genius loci” as an actual presence, like an appeal. I photograph what I feel more than what I see, then I try to recreate that very pure, rarefied sensation of silence and suspension of time that certain places grant me.”

Somewhere, far away – Poems and photographs. Author: Angela Pietribiasi. Publisher: Albatros, “Nuove Voci” series. 93 pages First edition: June 2013.