Altari’ is a photographic topology of bedrooms in the rural Campania region of Italy, which has seen significant depopulation in its villages. The elderly, still residing in their homes, uphold customs and traditions that may soon be subject to transformation or even disappearance. Related to this, both religion and superstition form an essential aspect of their daily lives. The photographic documentation of these bedrooms, intended as places of worship for a past in decay, develops from this social, cultural, and historical haemorrhage. Once the weighted value that previous generations assigned to the bedroom is discarded, the cycle is broken, history is lost, and memory evaporates.

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ISBN 9781908889997
112 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, hb, Italian/English