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Taranto Ilva

When a story is told loses the boundaries of private property becomes public. It exposes the comments, the looks, the words on the words of the story it will produce another and another. The stories are well told the most effective way to communicate and to see reality, to open doors, to ensure that staff will come to the universal, from private to public. The images and the words convey in a powerful look, or the assessment, information and interest. Ours is a story told in pictures.

The story we tell is that of a city, the city Taranto. The story of Taranto is closely linked to that of a factory. The facility is called ILVA. The factory, with six plants in Italy, involved in a number of prosecutions for pollution, is now responsible for the Ninety-two percent of total emissions of dioxin in Italy, as well as the release into air and water mercury and other heavy metals. The District Drums Taranto is estimated among the most polluted cities in Italy.

Bond between data of pollution so evident, permanent impairment of the landscape and territory, and risk factors for the health of citizens, there is no doubt.

This story dealing with every day people they call "home" that piece of land, the morning opening the window on the landscape, they breathe that air more than others and drink from those taps. To consider risks on their skin, they see the smoke, dirt, disease. This story then dealing everyday citizens' associations that try to defend health and the environment, the committees for the referendum on the closure of the factory, environmentalists, internet blog, opinions, journalists, photographers, television, in-depth analysis, the dossier, the press. They could spend days reading since the early '60s as the city's history is tied to that of the factory, and the story continues and you can tell.

What we see before our eyes is that the environmental situation in Taranto has only worsened over the years, what interests us evaluate is the private experience, because we are sure that affects us personally, that this is our story.