New York Times, Vanity Fair, Le Figaro, National Geographic are in the curriculum of Stefano Schirato, a long-time photojournalist. He has traveled the world, setting indelible scenes such as those from the Chernobyl area, the site of the nuclear power plant disaster. Yet he wanted to go "down to the South" in Italy, in the tortured Land of Fires in Campania. He went there to collect images of another drama of our time.
In Milan on the occasion of the International Day of Nonviolence – October 2nd – organized by the UN, Schirato exhibits the photos from this unfortunate but hopeful reality. Between Naples and Caserta, from the countryside of Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah, he brought us dozens of shots later collected in the volume "Terra Mala". A worthy cultural project, rather than an artistic synthesis, which lays bare a reality dramatically experienced by thousands of people. Anyone who doesn't know what that land of illegal waste, devastation and complicity of all kinds really is, realizes it. The reporter worked by connoting the shots with a commitment against eco-mafia and the defense of human beings' right to psycho-physical balance. The exhibition will be in via Palmanova 69 in Milan at the headquarters of the GUNA, "Italian pharmaceutical company that has been developing cutting-edge therapeutic proposals since 1983 and national leader in low-dose medicine".
The industrial artistic nexus is not hidden. Far from it. Because the cancer register of the 55 Municipalities of Tierra dei Fuego registers dozens of cases every year. Very serious pathologies, legacies of failed checks and multimillion-dollar illegal businesses. A gloomy background for the 25 photographs on display that remind men of what they have done to other men. The exhibition is free and the GUNA Society explains to us that the commitment to non-violence day also includes the criminal acts of the eco-mafia linked to the waste industry. The project of the book "Terra Mala" - adds Alessandro Pizzoccaro, President of GUNA - involved us both for the passion of Stefano Schirato, and for the real consonance between the values that characterize the DNA of GUNA and the message of the volume against eco-mafia . Human beings have the right to a physical and psychological balance, if art helps them and is combined with scientific research something positive comes out of it. An interesting combination to raise the sensitivity of a nation in the face of unjustified tragedies
