“La scarpa al chiodo” by Michele Pelosi

This photo I found to be very drawing.  It’s a fairly static composition with a hegemonic colour scheme.  After the inital aesthetic impact you begin to analyse and take in the artifacts within the picture.

You, the viewer,  are invited into a bleak world, you can imagine that the room is currently being dwelt in, with it’s jacket haning on the wall, as if the occupant may return at any moment to resume their life within this damaged and spartan room.  I find the quality of the image to be in how you are enticed to visualize a world more than what can be witnessed from the pixels, and to me that is a mark of a successful photograph.

Aspects that speak to me on a personal level are that I am reminded of my time in war-torn Croatia in the summer of ‘93.  From movies, TV and reading the source is reminiscent of rural Russia, maybe a quickly abandoned Chernobyl homestead.  Chernobyl is like a stitch in time as most things had to be left when it was evacuated, and a renewal of wild life (be it gone to feral house cats, or the return of the wolf, or the old ramshackling bear) within a cityscape left to go to ruin … not a smoldering or glowing heap — in my mind at least, and from what footage I’ve been able to see taken of the area and it’s renewed and adapting wildlife.

Source: I found this image on flickr when I was looking at a related link seen on a facebook posting.  I have achived the image on another server as U fear a link to the flickr site would not have the longevity I hope for it.  This posting is simply a response to the picture, and in no way is intended to take any credit away from the talented photographer, or their rights to this property.

From a ‘Italian to English’ babelfish translation:

Title: The shoe to the nail

Date of Shot: 29 August 2009

Location: Ruins of the earthquake in locality Trappeto, Montecalvo Irpino

Additional info: Through the pericolanti ruins of the earthquake, Montecalvo Irpino.