Babylon

«I started this journey in 2016, few years after moving from Italy, while I was working in a pub in London. From that moment, both for personal attitude and curiosity, I decided to immerse myself in the nightlife of London's council houses, the post-Margareth Thatcher universe, the "endless" buildings where the working class is ''relegated''. The Council estates are a way of managing the city that began in the post-war period, but which today, given the crazy prices of a city that seems to want to push away its citizens, is more relevant than ever. I tried to show the situations that are usually not under the spotlight, in an undercover world where ethnic groups, lifestyles and hopes coexist. I decided to immerse myself, humanly and visually, in the society of the "abandoned", the so-called Underdogs, between alienation, dependencies and hopes. This personal and photographic journey, which began shortly before Brexit and concluded after its enactment, led me to create Babylon, my long project from the depths of the English capital. The project idea came after this lyric by the Band The Verve:Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life Tryna make ends meet, tryna find somebody then you die."