Project Statement:
Trash is a project I realised in summer 2007 in Sicily. The problem of “Trash” was and still is very important in the South of Italy. Seeing garbage bins surrounded by rubbish left on the street is something normal for local people. At the same time there is something weird and appealing about this dispersed trash.
I captured images of ordinary objects, that have been abandoned along the natural landscape rather than being placed in bins. Some of these garbages are consumed by the passing of time and by atmospheric agents, while others look as new as when they were first discarded.
My interest in this topic came from being influenced by the photography of August Sander and by the Deadpan Photography and I wanted to create a collective catalogue of this Trash. In addition I wanted to document an environmental problem that continues to exist in the South of Italy.