Marco D'Anna
One Belt One Road - SPECIAL ONE PAGE 3D
Artphilein Editions, Lugano — 2020
This special edition of "One Belt One Road" includes a double image - one page 3D, Fine Art printed on 276gr. 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag Duo Paper.
The book by Marco D’Anna intends to reflect on a new Silk Route: One Belt One Road, investigated through a series of photographs of ‘landscapes’ of containers and an apparatus of texts about international shipping routes.
The project started off in a key moment of the photographer’s life: years ago, during one of his journeys, he was on an Italian warship heading for the Gulf of Aden in Somalia, via the Suez Canal.
He saw cargo ships appear of a size he had never seen before. They looked like spaceships coming out of the night – they were huge, one a scale he had never even seen in the Mediterranean.
That was the first time he came into contact with shipping containers and the huge boats of planetary commerce.
