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It will be the hall of the Terraces of Castel dell’Ovo, to Naples, to accommodate 6 to 22 November, the exhibition “The Thousand Faces of China” by Paolo Longo, photographer and journalist, foreign correspondent for RAI.
The protagonists of the display, whose opening is scheduled for Friday, November 6 to 18, 60 photographs and three long sequences of images taken by Longo in his “Chinese years”.
“To understand where the world is heading – explains the author – you have to go to Asia, and to understand where it is going to Asia must go to China. In China I have been all over the country, doing reportage for radio and for television, but also taking pictures to tell a country that was experiencing tremendous growth and extraordinarily fast. In the final selection of pictures – still – I deleted everything he did “record” and all I had the taste of the exotic, the Orient. Each photo thus becomes a story that refers to other stories and other tales or true for himself. Stories of people, real stories, images of real life”.
The exhibition tells the story in older neighborhoods that still dominate the city, but also the birth of a modern youth who is not different from that of any Western city; passes from the skyscrapers to the huts, identifies the growing need for spirituality after thirty years of economic growth, modernity and antiquity of China. The journalists working in China thirty years ago were always talking about how everyone was equal, in their blue jackets or green and their endless bicycles. Today in China the impression that every day is the story of a nation is being shattered into a billion individual stories, in a billion stories.
The pictures of Paolo Longo tell this China. “Over the years – concludes the author – and it shows in the sequence of this exhibition, I have embraced different instruments from Leica are switched to digital, and in the end, why not, even on a cell phone today is turning once again the photograph”.
