Ilva

Ilva is Europe‘s largest steel werk. It’s completly dominating and poisoning Taranto. The omnipresence of that beast makes me feel like circling a sleeping dragon. In German it could be called a Lindwurm which is a dragon without wings, a snakeworm. Tamburi is the quarter in Taranto next to Ilva. It‘s cemetery is visible witness of Italy‘s highest cancer rate here. The rusty dust is painting angels and town red but not the fields of cheap simple graves.So far, Ilva has kept Taranto safe from gentrification