A failed utopia


  • Photographer
    Attilio Bixio
  • Prize
    3rd Place / Editorial/Photo Essay and Feature Story
  • Company/Studios
    None
  • Date of Photograph
    May, June 2017

In Basilicata, south Italy, a large "land reform" was made by the Government in the 50's of the last century, whereby many fields were assigned to agricultural workers that didn't own any. It was quite a social utopia, but afterwards the small farmhouses they built were almost all abandoned, and now the area is a large expanse of wheat fields, with few lonely houses, some of them collapsed. Nevertheless, all of them appears such as they have always been part of the surrounding landscape. They create minimal and graphical landscapes, where you will only see a few signs of the human life, such a plowed field with an abandoned farmhouse or a tree. And the sky. Nothing else.

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