On November 23rd , 1980, at 7:34 pm, the earth shook in Irpinia, a territory between Campania and Basilicata, two of the poorest regions in southern Italy. The shock was 6.8 on the Richter scale and lasted 70 seconds. Enough to bury 2914 lives and destroy hundreds of thousands of homes around Naples. That day […]
In recent years, the number of young Neapolitans killed in the historic center and in the eastern outskirts of Naples, aged between 16 and 25, has grown considerably. A trail of blood that flows continuously in the streets of Naples, where votive chapels and murals were continually born to give a voice to those lives […]
Paolo Manzo is a photographer based and trained in photography in Naples (Italy) and at “IED” (European Institute of design) in Rome. The desire to know and to tell the Neapolitan suburbs arose over the years of his adolescence when, driving home with his parents, he crossed a peripheral road of the eastern area […]
Roberto Saviano was born on September 22nd, 1979 in Naples, Italy. He is an iteration journalist and author known. For his investigative reporting on organized crimes and the Italian mafia. He rose to fama with his bestselling bool Gomorrah and Zero zero zero. He created the Italian tv crime series Gomorrah based on his book […]
On the night of February 29, 2020, a day already special in itself as it is linked to leap, Ugo Russo, a 15-year-old boy from the Spanish Quarters, was on the street with a toy gun looking for an alternative way to make money. A bad idea, like so many others in a neighborhood where, […]
