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(All photos © Alex MacLean)

Photographer Alex MacLean has been flying around the United States in his plane for a while now, taking aerial pictures that little have in common with the cold-hearted omniscence of Google Earth. Instead, they provide a beautiful, poetic, and yet compelling view of the ecological risks of suburban sprawl, uncontrolled industrialism, and the scarcity of environment-friendly energy sources. MacLean’s eye selects visually-amazing targets, to which he also attaches a rich statistical documentation to better outline a risky scenario: toxic waste, pollution, global warming, but also housing speculation and social isolation.

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Giancarlo Siani bisogna ricordarlo. Morto a 26 anni, l’unico giornalista tanto scomodo da essere ammazzato dalla camorra. Non raccontava solo la mafia da cronaca nera, ma indagava sugli appalti, le connivenze istituzionali, il magna magna post Irpinia ’80. Che purtroppo non sono faccende limitate a Torre Annunziata e zone limitrofe. (more…)