La teleferica
Claudio Bettio
What: Decommissioned concrete transportation cableway
Where: Cansiglio, Italy
When: 2011
La Colonia
Claudio Bettio
What: Abandoned holyday resort. Built in the sixties for ENI’s employees’ fsamilies.
Where: Borca di Cadore, Italy
When: 2013-15
Where: Borca di Cadore, Italy
When: 2013-15
Zona di Sacrificio
Claudio Bettio
What: Shitty polluted place since the very beginning.
Where: Marghera, Italy
When: 2010
The Lomo Lubitel 166-B was the first medium format camera I've ever owned. Also the only 6x6 TLR I've ever used. I got it for a very cheap price back in the days when old film cameras were not sold for absurd money, so I thought I'd give it a go. Despite being very light and easy to use, I found was it not very comfortable to handle and compose. I shot only two rolls with it and this is the last one. I sold the camera straight away afterwards, and now that I've finally scanned that roll I regret selling it. Same old story.
Shot in Marghera, the largely abandoned and hopelessly polluted industrial compound of Venice. It was a shit place in 2010, and still is after a decade. Well done, progress.
Shot in Marghera, the largely abandoned and hopelessly polluted industrial compound of Venice. It was a shit place in 2010, and still is after a decade. Well done, progress.
Marghera acida
Claudio Bettio
What: X-processed photos, LOMO LC-A
Where: Marghera, Venice, Italy
When: 2009
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Claudio Bettio
What: Unfinished abandoned commercial compound. Closed for 9 years, it’s been recently converted into a covid-19 vaccination centre.
Where: Treviso, Italy
When: 2013
Where: Treviso, Italy
When: 2013
This is the story of the failure of a project: a large multifunctional settlement designed by the architect Tobia Scarpa on the outskirts of Treviso. A project that sums up the features of the crisis and becomes its paradigm: ghost money in Swiss banks, mysterious clients, unscrupulous financial transactions, speculation, opaque relations with local politics, workers left unemployed.
A very expensive failure: not a business that has closed, but a place that has never opened. The story of a possibility that has not materialized. What remains of the project is an unfinished settlement already in ruins. Never opened and already old. Too expensive to buy, too big to remove. What used to be empty areas for commercial construction are now occupied but unusable areas. The open space - a place of possibilities - has become a closed void, a huge pigeon house in glass blocks.
A very expensive failure: not a business that has closed, but a place that has never opened. The story of a possibility that has not materialized. What remains of the project is an unfinished settlement already in ruins. Never opened and already old. Too expensive to buy, too big to remove. What used to be empty areas for commercial construction are now occupied but unusable areas. The open space - a place of possibilities - has become a closed void, a huge pigeon house in glass blocks.
This work was developed during the photography workshop "Investigazioni Private" with photographer Francesco Jodice. The workshop took place at Fondazione Francesco Fabbri in
Pieve di Soligo, 2013. The photos were later exhibited in 40x50cm prints in Asolo, Italy.