We went to Taranto, to kick off our project and meet people who will help us to see through. It all started entering the apartment on the ground floor of Via De Cesare which houses the local branch of ' AIL (Italian Association against Leukaemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma). Not much to explain to those who live in Taranto when dealing with a discourse on and about the ILVA. Everyone knows what the situation is. That's why we did not need many words to describe our vision and our goal. The Association, among other things, deals with assistance to cancer patients and we have contacted to carry out a series of portraits. Thanks to President Paola D'Andria Piero Mottolese we know, an incredible character, a former steel mill worker who now spends most of his time to film and photograph what is happening around the factory and say you know exactly what comes out from the smokestacks. With him, we spent 4 hours under the sun in search of the ideal spots to take pictures (the supervision of the refineries has not taken it well) and we toured the streets of drums. For several days an order of the mayor Stefàno forbids children to play in the flower beds contaminated. There is a sign that gives notice to residents. Children playing, however, there are. As Peter himself says, this is a district of the living dead.
In the same day we also met an oncologist, Dr.. Antonio Rinaldi, head of the surgery of Castellaneta, a town half an hour's drive from Taranto. Dr. Rinaldi follows about 1,200 patients, many are just the drums. It gave us some data Interestingly the incidence of the disease and rare diseases that seem to occur more easily in Taranto and elsewhere. Not satisfied with the condition it is working - the health situation in the South is what it is - but it seems pretty combative. There will certainly help.
Now we are in Rome but soon we will return to Taranto to take more photos, meet other people like Paola, Dr. Rinaldi, Ettore group of "liberal and practical Awareness" which also gave us a view from above of Taranto, in his "old city" of the seas that bathe and ILVA that is intoxicating. Relentlessly, day after day.
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