Planet faces

The research on landscape, starting from the Fifities, has experienced a remarkable exploits in an attempt to curb the impetuosity of urban and territorial transformations produced by humans. The aim was to prevent the proliferation of those deep and questionable wounds that would have gradually, though radically, re-arranged the face of the planet. Photography in all this time has played an important role of documentation and criticism, though powerless to the outcomes, often damaging, of the progress. Moving from this common ground Baguskas’s investigation wishes to proceed further. With a less clinical and more detached attention, with a pictorial but not nostalgic look, he portrays the need of landscape more than the landscape itself. It is a less canonical approach, more introspective, but able to take man with his inability and weaknesses back to the core, thus, shifting the issue from the care of the environment to that of human nature.

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© Courtesy of Ian Baguskas

www.ianbaguskas.com

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