The place of trees
by Enzo Crispino

portfolio special mention call 'WHAT'S THE URGENCY?', 2021

We need farmers, poets, people who know how to bake bread, love trees, and recognize the wind. More than the year of growth, we need a year of care for those who fall, to the sunrise and sunset, to children, a simple lamppost, a peeling wall. [...] Freely taken from 'Give way to the trees' by Franco Arminio. For some years, my photographic research has focused on social and environmental issues. I live in an area that has undergone profound and drastic changes over the years that have definitively changed the cultural aspect of its territorial identity, no longer rural but industrial. This metamorphosis has induced a new perception of belonging to the territory. The land was disfigured by the intensification of urban and industrial areas. Making havoc on the permanent meadows makes way for intensive urban construction and industrial warehouses that are often unfinished, abandoned, and exposed to degradation. The face of the man-made environment takes on a different identity -as evidence of this new culture, buildings and urban architecture take on the role of totems before our eyes; the symbol of the new civilization...


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