SANTORO, Salvatore - Saluti da Pinetamare

Personal statement by Salvatore SANTORO, background information

"These are the places of my childhood summer holidays. At that time these places were still pretty wild, just built, with nature still strong. But in those years the legal and illegal building boom began and filled with cement all the area, making it a symbol of unauthorized and environmental destruction. 
Illegality calls illegality and over the time this area is further degraded until today to be one of the main drug marketplace of the center-south Italy, headquarters of the Nigerian mafia (born in Castel Volturno and not in Nigeria), the commercial area of the Neapolitan Camorra and Mafia Casalese, area of illegal waste." (© Salvatore SANTORO)

Content

The photos in the self-published photo volume 'Saluti da Pinetamare' by Italian photographer Salvatore SANTORO - small sized inserts are including photographs of his childhood - were taken during three years 2009-2011 from different places along the 54 km of the National Road n. 7 (...) crossing the Mediterranean coast of the provinces of Naples and Caserta, in Italy.

Additional information

The self-published photo volume 'Saluti da Pinemare' is Salvatore SANTOR's debut book. The dummy was shortlisted to the DUMMY AWARD 2012 at 5th International Photobook Festival. Exhibitions: - Le Bal, Paris 2012.

About Italian photographer, Salvatore SANTORO

Photo books by Salvatore SANTORO