Pictures range from the ruins of Kabul in 2001 to the gutted houses of southern Lebanon in 2006, from the ghost towns of Libya in 2011 to the refugee camps in South Sudan and Iraq in recent days. Battlefields, skeletons of aircraft and tanks, walls, fortresses and military posts: so, in the almost complete absence of the human figure, the author mixed the landscape genre and reportage to reflect not on a particular conflict but of all wars.
I took a lot of photos of despair, pain and screams but for this book I chose images of landscapes, places marked by the destruction and the effects of war. One way I hope to reflect away from the noise and excitement of all the conflicts of the present age. (...)
http://www.privatephotoreview.com/2015/05/alfredo-macchi-war-landscapes/
