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New Vesuvian Landscapes

Gigi Cifali depicts the abusive settlements inside the Vesuvius National Park in the manner of a landscape painter of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes

New Vesuvian Landscapes, photography series by Gigi Cifali, tackles the theme of unauthorized constructions inside the Vesuvius National Park.

In the face of the view of a nature that should be protected, the attention of the photographer is captured by many details scattered and hidden in the volcano’s so-called red zone with a high risk, which do not belong to the photographed landscape. Yet, it is still possible to imagine how in the past these places overlooking the Gulf of Naples appeared to the travellers of the Grand Tour. In fact, the technical choice of circular cutting images refers intentionally to the landscape tradition of the Posillipo School painters between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali, New Vesuvian Landscapes, Untitled, 2013

Gigi Cifali (Naples, 1975) lives in Milan and London, where he earned a Master’s degree in Photography from the University of Westminster. Documentary photographer, has been awarded several times, his shots were selected, among others by: the International Photography Awards, Fuji Prix Awards, AOP Association of Photographers Awards and François Schneider Foundation, who acquired his series “Absence of Water”. His works have been published in Italy and abroad.

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