ILVA

People settled in the area where Taranto is located as early as the Stone Age. As an important harbour city in ancient times it was founded around 1,000 years before Rome. Today there is ILVA, Europe‘s largest steel werk. By its central location the industry complex is not only visually dominating the view of Taranto. There is always something in the air. This omnipresence makes me feel like circling a sleeping dragon. In German I would call it a Lindwurm which is a dragon without wings. Tamburi is the quarter in Taranto next to ILVA. It‘s cemetery is visible witness of the rusty dust which is painting angels red but and fills the fields of cheap graves by cancer. Paolo VI is a satellite town of Taranto. It was realized in the late 60s for the steel workers and their families. So far, ILVA has kept Taranto safe from gentrification...

Digital print on Baryt, Tamburi 2025

Digital print on Baryt, Paolo IV 2025

Dux means Duce. During fascism in Italy Mussolini was responsible for a lot of architectural activities, in Taranto among others these storage halls at Porta Napoli. There‘s a bus station now.

Digital print on Baryt, Porta Napoli 2023

Digital print on Baryt, Tamburi 2023

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