Maurizio Esposito
Vesuvio, 11 luglio 2017
In July 2017, the National park of Vesuvius was destroyed by numerous fires. More than 2700 hectares of pine forests were lost, 50 millions bees died. I grew up with my family in those pine forests for twenty five years, the Vesuvius was a presence for me. Ten years ago I left my family home and I moved to Naples. This distance had changed my relationship with the volcano, it was too far to be a presence in my life, it became landscape. When I saw that it was burning, I was on my rooftop, there were fires everywhere in eight different places at least. During the night I couldn’t sleep, in that moment the Vesuvius stopped being landscape and it awakened as an interior presence within me. The day after I decided to go to help firemen to stop the fires. When fires were extinguished I began to take pictures, it was my way to take care of Vesuvius and me.
