Giulio Di Sturco
(Italy)
Giulio Di Sturco (b.1979) is an award-winning photographer based between London, Paris and Milan. He studied at the European Institute of Design in Rome before moving to Canada and then to India, where he spent five years refining his visual language.
Di Sturco began his career as a photojournalist before dedicating himself to long-term projects which explore the society of the future in the face of environmental and technological changes. Experimenting with visual storytelling, new and old media, his practice expands traditions of documentary photography conjuring a poetics of the future where the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred.
His awards include three World Press Photo prizes, the Sony Photography Awards, the British Journal of Photography International Awards, and two Getty Grants. In 2019, his project Aerotropolis was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Prize and nominated for the Prix Pictet.
He is a regular contributor to many international publications including The Financial Times, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Wired and The New York Times. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals worldwide at York Art Gallery, Photaumnales Festival, Photo London, Getxophoto Festival, and Cortona On The Move Festival, among others.
He has recently published his first monograph, Ganga Ma (GOST, 2019) with essays by environmental activist Vandana Shiva and curator Eimear Martin.
A New Era of Salt Extraction
Salt has been exploited for thousand years and has contributed to shape many aspects of human life beyond nutrition, in the economic, symbolic and religious spheres.The Mediterranean Sea and Europe have played a pivotal role at the centre of the salt trade and salt extraction industry and now they are undergoing strong salinification due to climate change.This project seeks to further explore the link between salt extraction, climate change and salination of land in the era of the Anthropocene as well as the environmental issues which the current salt production techniques are generating.
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©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF45mmF2.8 R WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF45mmF2.8 R WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF45mmF2.8 R WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, Sicily hosts the only sites in the world where the production, extraction and manufacturing of salt take place entirely underground through major networks of tunnels over 70km long. The salt arrives on the market in its original state, resurfacing to light after 6 million years.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF45mmF2.8 R WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF63mmF2.8 R WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
©Giulio Di Sturco | GFX100S & GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR, In France and in Spain for example, rising sea levels could eat away at the coastline and cause widespread flooding with a very real impact on production of salt.
