Gianpaolo Arena
Arles

The town is situated on the banks of the Rhone, where its delta begins, and forms the gate of the departement of Camargue.

Journey fragments

Border territories between nature and civilization. Landscape photographs where the anthropical element is always evident despite the presence of man is only suggested by the curious observation of his traces. Moods and feelings replace the pursuit of the "decisive moment". From the comprehensive view to the accidental fragment, the signs and the evasive traces compose a kind of "human geography", far from the idea of bucolic and postcard landscape. The road network and cars, emblems of modern hunger for speed, power and efficiency, emerge as revealing signals of an ongoing change: the progressive mutation of the characters in contemporary landscape.
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