Characteristic of new forms of documentary, this work is a reflection on how to talk about social issues without falling into the trap of using overly emotional images and losing track of the reality of situations. For years Alessandro Imbriaco has been looking at the issue of poor housing that is so recurrent in many big European cities. In the course of his work, he discovered “Angela’s garden”, a space situated under a viaduct of the Eastern bypass in Rome. This garden, on abandoned marshy land, paradoxically became the refuge for a homeless family whose story Alessandro Imbriaco tells through his photography. The strength of his work lies in the disquiet we feel in discovering these photos, which aren’t presented as social documentary but rather as a sort of Eden in which people live and survive with dignity in a twenty-first century European city under conditions that appear to be from another era…
Born in 1980 in Italy. Lives and works in Rome. Alessandro Imbriaco won the Canon Award for Young Photography in 2008 and the European Publishers Award for Photography in 2012. In 2008, he participated in the Reflexion Masterclass directed by Giorgia Fiorio and Gabriel Bauret. In 2011, he was selected to participate in the Masterclass run by World Press Photo. Alessandro Imbriaco is currently distributed by Contrasto (Rome) and represented by Forma Galeria (Milan).
Alessandro Imbriaco
From Monday 1st July to Sunday 22 September 2013
Magasin Électrique
13200 Arles
France
10 am – 7.30 pm
8 €
