The circle, Punta Sabbioni (Venezia)

Fabio Ponzio began his career as a photographer in 1977 with his first trip across Northern Europe on a Vespa scooter. The author of reportages on Eastern Europe, Ponzio creates sui generis documentary images and prefers to define himself a “humanist” photographer: rather than the tout court study of the landscape, he prefers to analyse the effects of human activity on the environment. The reportage realised along the Italian coast from Rimini to Trieste for "atlante italiano 007. Rischio paesaggio" represents the “ideology” of the vacation in all of its extraneousness to the conservation of the landscape. This paradox is rendered palpable in Ponzio’s reconnaissance of the Adriatic Coast. This natural landscape, serving the needs of man and his recreational desires is, conversely disturbed by man himself, who traps it in artificial cages: the structures that nurture mass tourism.