Plot A8616 7/11/44-11/4/45: 435 Bombs Target: Rail Bridge & Rail Diversion

Paul Seawright’s interest in photographing the landscape focuses on a territory that cannot be identified with a specific geographic area or a defined typology of landscape: his work reconnoitres a physical and psychological no man’s land balanced between visibility and latency, dark and light, accessible and off-limits, nature and culture. The sprit animating Seawright’s research includes an attraction to sites that conceal an obscure hostility, such as those captured for "atlante italiano 007. Rischio paesaggio" . His work interprets the notion of rischio paesaggio by inverting its traits: not a landscape at risk, but instead a potentially risky landscape. Images of the apparently innocuous Trentino region, in some cases idyllic with their calm waters and luxurious vegetation, are to be read in an entirely different fashion: in reality they are the sites of unexploded bombs dropped across the landscape during the Second World War, hinted at in the code of the bomb found in the title.