TerraProject
Exhibition
2010
TerraProject
Exhibition
2010
Emerigo Laccetti, colonel of the italian Red Cross that worked in Kosovo between 1992 and 1999. Returning from one of these missions he contracted a non Hodgkin Lymphoma; after 12 cycles of chemotherapy and 20 cycles of radiotherapy he's now having a normal life even though he cannot consider himself totally recovered.
A series of landscape images from Bosnia and Kosovo, selected on the basis of the areas bombed by the NATO during the 1995 and 1999 Balkan wars, and by following the narration of four Italian veterans affected by the Balkan syndrome who have visited those places.
Radioactive graffiti on the wall of an apartment in Hadzici, the most targeted city by NATO in Bosnia
Antonio Sepe. Father of Luca, an italian soldier dead in 2004 for an Hodgkin's disease, after the return from a mission in Kosovo
Pierluigi Ontanetti, 53 years old, volunteered in Sarajevo during the war taking in and out the mail from the siege. After the end of the war he went back to Bosnia many times. In 2003 his doctors discovered a form of leukemia.
Giuseppe Ciotola, 32 years old, from Naples. Giuseppe suffers from a form of leukemia caused by the inhalation of heavy-metal nanoparticles, as diagnosed by Dr. Gatti. Giuseppe has been discharged by the Italian Army and does not receive any pension. He now works as a part-time mechanic in Treviso.
View of the ski resort of the Mount Igman, a few kilometers from Sarajevo. It was the main facility for the 1984 Winter Olympics. Today its slopes are closed due to the presence of mines.
E.CO. – Encuentro y Exposición de Colectivos, Madrid, 2010