Earthquakes

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This project was born with the aim of giving an editorial output to earthquakes, a photography project developed by Igor Londero (2016-2020): "In May 1976, a strong earthquake destroyed a large area of Friuli, in the north-east of Italy, with a moment magnitude of 6.5 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X. After the earthquake 978 people died, 2400 were injured and 157000 were left homeless. At the time my father lived in Buja, a small town near the epicenter of the earthquake and was 25 years-old.

Forty years later, what was born out of those ruins? What is the identity and landscape of “post-earthquake generation”? Can the echo of a catastrophic event that radically changed the history and landscape of a territory have visible repercussions on generations who did not experience the event, but only created the enviroment later on? How long can the effects of a disastrous event last through time and culture?

These are some of the questions that move this project, at times autobiographical, at times kind of anthropology-fiction, on the lost generation born after the '76 Earthquake in this lands. Earthquakes turns an austere and distant gaze only on what was born after the 1976 earthquake. The past re-enters only through some photographic plates from an old archive, with a selection of architectures that have not collapsed."