Milano Porta Nuova
Photographic accounts of the asthetical and structural transformation of the city from a view alongside the relentless work on the construction sites.
I've always nurtured strong interests, both personal and photographical, in building sites whether they are testimonies of new things to come or simply renovation and improvement.
After being a borderland within the inner city and an empty, urban space, Porta Nuova is now starting to take shape in the form of construction yards taking over and developing the areas of Porta Garibaldi, Isola and ex Varesine. Day after day, brick after brick, this relentless work is a testament of the great architectual, urbanistic and cultural changes that Milan has gone through over recent years.
Milan is changing and evolving through international projects and the fusion of magnificent buildings taking pride of place in large, green 'show room' spaces form the point of view of a city projected into the future that doesn't lose sight of the human dimension.
During my shots, I sought to convey the point of view of the observer that sees and realises something that he has been waiting to see for a long time. I tried to exclude human activity and traffic to emphasise that sense of waiting that wanted to be communicated. The same waiting from which I'd been obligated to wait to capture the image that I'd had in my mind. To create some shots, I had to wait for the decongestion of busy traffic, for others I so much as had to wait for calmer times of the year like bright summer days or the bleaker periods found at the end of the year.
I tried, in addition, to exclude everything from the shot that I considered to be an element of distraction to the eye of the observer, to whom I'd like to show that even tomorrow will be different from how today appears and that it's an essential part of this grand urban metamorphosis of which we are witnesses.
