Marco Delogu, Edoardo Albinati
Captivity
All the photos were taken in different sections of the Rebibbia jail in Rome, between Autumn 1997 and Spring 2003. However Rebibbia in these photos is not easily identifiable, it is simply a detention centre, one of a community of fifty thousand in Italy and millions throughout the world whose inhabitants live within a web of imposed and self-imposed rules and regulations, that are indecipherable to those who do not know this experience. Beyond the rules are men and women just trying to survive.
I was interested in the relation between people and their environment. Over time I have come to focus on either the people or their environment. Concutelli had burned his beard during an accident with a gas burner and had shaved it for the first time in years. Notorious and anonymous figures alike posed patiently for me. A Sardinian friend helped me but did not want to be photographed. The women were much warmer and more colourful. The transsexuals kept asking to be photographed a second time.
Marco Delogu
Marco Delogu was born in 1960 in Rome, where he still lives and works.
His work focuses on portraits of social groups connected by common experiences and languages. He has published over 20 books and has exhibited his work in several galleries and museums in Italy and abroad, including the Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Rome; the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; the Warburg Institute, London; the Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds; IRCAM - Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Museé de l'Elysee, Lausanne; the PhotoMuseum, Moscow; the ex-GIL, Rome; and the Capitoline Museums, Rome.
He is director of FotoGrafia, the international photography festival held in Rome.
Edoardo Albinati was born in Rome in 1956. He has published several books of poetry and fiction, including “Il polacco lavatore di vetri”, “Orti di guerra”, “19”, “Sintassi italiana”, “Il ritorno”, “Svenimenti”.
His most recent work is “Tuttalpiù muoio” (Fandango libri) written with Filippo Timi.
Since 1994 he has taught in the Rebibbia penitentiary in Rome. This experience provided the material for his work “Maggio selvaggio” (Mondadori).
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