When I was a child I often said to myself: this country has nothing, I'm talking about the province north of Naples, where there was actually very little and one had to find satisfaction with the help of their imagination. The areas between the north and east were all quite similar, at least where the urban fabric was concerned, but what has stuck with me over time was that term "nothing", which to me indicates a void full of imagination. Recently I became attracted to these places again, in the province of Naples east; where that bleak nothingness often comes back to my memory.
In the province of Naples there are many areas that are left abandoned to their fate, formed by the ghettos where I spent my childhood. I am fascinated by the idea of desolation, of the emptiness that is reflected inside of those places, otherwise know as the "land of fires" which has a high rate of pollution decay and abandonment. What still interests me is being able to convey the emptiness that envelops these places, and perhaps even me.
Luciano D’Inverno is from Acerra in Naples, Italy. His photographic research investigates how the human gaze perceives space. Previously working in advertising photography, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples where he met Ennery Taramelli, a historian and photography and art critic. Together they published the books Vesevo, IntraMoeniaed, Campi Flegrei and Qui i piedi non si posano per terra.