...and then it ends. Literally: a road sign says “here ends the public road”, and there, right there, at the end of “their” road, the lifeless corpses of almost 1.000 cars are resting: it's one of the two largest old car graveyard in Sweden. Chassis and rims, foils and coils and headlights and gaskets abandoned by a local car wrecker since the 40s, now make a gigantic monument to an era, the one of individual mobility, which has still to fade, differently from the millions of vehicles which fed it. And a monument to consumerism and to what's happening once we get rid of the consumed goods. And to the boundless power of Nature, which is step by step conquering the naked bodies of the cars, reclaiming the spaces that belong to her. It's been a quick visit, just a couple of hours of inspection in preparation for further in depth sessions and in different seasons, and nevertheless very rich in emotions and wonder, through several layers of reading, non only from a photographic standpoint; starting with that peculiar feeling in watching the “after” of such a daily tool, with which we use to have such an strict relationship.
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I live in Sweden, in Särna (Dalarna). The Chronicles are a photo diary about the nature (but not just) here around and from all the Scandinavian areas where my photo job takes me.
My book: "My Sweden - Tales from an Italian photographer in the North" is available in the bookstores and by the publisher.
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