THE LAND THAT REMAINS
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The Foundation presents to the public, the photography book THE LAND THAT REMAINS by Federico Busonero. The images, and texts that accompany them, by Anne Sanciaud-Azanza, Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, in addition to the photographer, shed new light on the tragic situation of the landscape and civilisation of Palestine. These are an elegy for an ancient land, of profound beauty, on the verge of disappearing.
The volume illustrates the author’s photographic campaign conducted in 2008-2009, on the initiative of Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, expert at UNESCO for the protection and valorisation of the archaeological, architectural and landscape heritage of the Middle East. The study was presented in 2010 with a photographic exhibition at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and then exhibited in Jerusalem and Ramallah, in the circuit of the French cultural centres and the Goethe Institut. The sequence of the book’s 79 photos was chosen in collaboration with curator Anne Sanciaud-Azanza, professor of heritage conservation at the François Rabelais University of Tours and, previously, curator of the Contemporary photography department of the French National Library.
THE LAND THAT REMAINS was published, in English, in 2016 by Hatje Cantz Verlag, and was presented at the Center for Palestine Studies – Columbia University, New York, la Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence, the Embassy of Palestine in Rome, and at Paris Photo.
At the scheduled lecture, the photographer Federico Busonero will be speaking along with Giovanni Fontana Antonelli, architect, landscape designer and conservator (unesco).