livietta https://journals.worldnomads.com/muddy_water/ Wed, 8 Apr 2026 08:02:13 GMT World Nomads Adventures This is Casale di Pignone (La Spezia_Italy) few days after the flood of the 25th of October 2011: lacerated and brought to its knees by Nature. As Casale, Brugnato, Borghetto, Cinque Terre and several villages surrounding La Spezia were devastated. A lot of volunteers came to help and I was among them, with my Olympus OM2 around my neck and a black and white roll (kodak 400TX). Many hours passed before I took a single picture. Also photography seemed useless to me. Everything. Everything except the shovel I had in my hand. Then I thought about them: the people of Casale, stripped of everything but their memory. I started to take pictures, timorous, asking myself constantly if it was right doing that in front of this nightmare that everybody wanted to forget as soon as possible. I still conserve that b&w roll cautiously because I think it's a piece of that memory that frightens but must be remembered, not only by words. I'm Livia, 26 years old student, attending the camera class at Zelig- School of documentary of Bolzano. In my head a lot of questions about photography, its complexity and humanity. On my foot a pair of shoes to walk far away... https://journals.worldnomads.com/muddy_water/photos/38448/Italy/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Travel Italy muddy_water https://journals.worldnomads.com/muddy_water/photos/38448/Italy/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/muddy_water/photos/38448/Italy/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:31:00 GMT 0