Journey to the Lowlands - A journey through the 'Lower Modena region'
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Exhibitions
Photographs by Valeria Sacchetti
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The " Lowland" (la Bassa) is an almost boring, flat and uniform territory in northern Emilia-Romagna, enclosed between the Apennines and crossed by the Po River, almost a borderland between northern and southern Italy.
There the days and seasons seem to alternate in an incessant rhythm between fog, winter frosts and scorching summer heat.
A land characterized by small family-run industries, but which, despite its wealth, was hit hard by the 2012 earthquake, which left behind a series of wounds that have not yet fully healed: in society, as well as in the economy and landscape.
Immediately after this event Valeria Sacchetti traveled with her camera to tell the story of those people and places, which the earthquake radically changed.
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from 16/06/2023 to 15/09/2023
Valeria Sacchetti was born in Modena. She graduated in Bologna at the faculty of History.
She travelled in several countries carrying out photo reportages for newspapers and magazines in Chile, France, Mexico, Iraq, Serbia and Bosnia. In 2011 she obtained a photography master from “Scuola Romana di Fotografia” with Massimo Mastrorillo and Lina Pallotta as teachers.
During the last years she has been directing her photographic research in Italy, particularly in Rome, Naples and in Emilia Romagna.
In 2016 she published her first book, “Generazione resistente”, a ten-year work about the partisan movement in Emilia-Romagna, with old, new photos and testimonies of hundred people of the region.
From 2012 to 2020 she worked in a long documentary project about her region called Journey to the Lowlands; during this period (2017/18) she took a master with the photographer Giancarlo Ceraudo, who helped her to define the vision and the history.
This work has been shortlisted at Kolga Tibilisi photo award 2020 and it was selected has the reportage winner project at Mono vision Award 2020.
Furthermore, Journey to the Lowlands was awarded by Nick Turpin as the winner of the Urban book award, a section dedicated to photo book drafts and which led to the printing of a catalogue.
She currently lives in Rome and works in a team of photographers called 'Contrails'.
The exhibition is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute and AERS - Associazione Emilia-Romagna in Stuttgart.
