Marco Delogu
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I spent the spring of 1994 seeking the leading figures in an episode of 20th-century Italian history. During the 1930s entire families of peasants from the Veneto region emigrated south of Rome to drain the Pontine Marshes and founded villages named after the battles won during the First World War.
Thirteen years later I extended the project to encompass another tale of emigration to Lazio: the Sardinian shepherds who brought their flocks to Maremma during the 1950s, and who have since seen their story repeat itself in the form of the shepherds from Eastern Europe who started migrating to the area in the 1990s. I then returned to the Pontine Marshes to photograph the new generations of peasants from Veneto and the northeast, and the recent immigrants from countries outside the European Union.
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.
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