The relationship between urban decay and social decline in 80 shots of six masters of photography. The result is the exhibition ‘Gangcity’, opened in Venice during the Architecture Biennale, in space Thetis Arsenale North. The exhibition will be open to the public from 28 May to 27 November. Through the lens of six great photographers we are proposed images documenting 40 years of dramatic relationship between suburbs the collapse and crime. A journey into the spaces of the world in which the gangs and criminal organizations proliferate in the fertile soil represented by urban cluster. The exhibition is spread between the tragic Palermo Letizia Battaglia, Roma borderline of graffiti artists Valerio Polici, the desolation of Scampia by Salvatore Esposito, the Naples of the historical facts of the Camorra and Albania’s visions of Francesco Cito, the gangs of ‘Latin America Donna De Cesare, the violent East Los Angeles of Walter Leonardi.
