A documentation work on geothermal plants By ENEL in Tuscany. Tuscany is a land of underground activity from geysers. Since decades, the former national electric company ENEL, now private, is collecting natural made underground steam and brings it to plants where all that power is transformed into electricity. The dedicated areas of such a geothermal…
Former Montevivo plant in Empoli. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras on…
Former tram power plant in Florence. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras…
Former Campolmi factory in Florence. Architectural photography project on abandoned industrial buildings in Florence and outskirts from an idea by Michele Pero and made together with the students of the professional academic classes of photography and multimedia 2016-2017 of the school TheDarkroom Academy Florence. All pictures have been taken with 4×5″ to 5×7″ cameras on…
HOW IT ALL STARTED Germany, Italy and Japan. Three countries sharing the same fate, at the end of World War II. Three countries destroyed to the ground. The 80s. Germans arrive in mass in Italy for vacations. Their pockets are stiffed of money. They seem can buy the World. They look aliens to the most…
The summer feasts of San Rocco and the Madonna of the Mountain in the Arbëreshë village of Plataci, Calabria
A journey to the village of Plataci, Calabria, to meet the Arbëreshë people, also known as the Albanians of Italy.
The 1997 riots in Albania During the first months of 1997 a violent protest rise up in Albania. People are protesting against the government of the country, guilty of the collapse of the financial pyramids that led Albanians to loose their bank investments. The army barracks and weapon depots are plundered. People rush to arm…
In 1996 Michele Pero meets for his first time the Albanian people on their own land and he discovers a reality so far from the one depicted by the overseas media.
1992, the war between Croatia and Bosnia and the consequences of it with refugees fleeing their homes.