In his photo reportage “Cast Lead”, Aldo Soligno tell us about the consequences of the Gaza Strip war, focusing on the last Israeli army offensive called “Cast Lead”. His dark and full pictures of the recent catastrophe could speak about any war, but his eye has been cached by that specific place, and he wants to show what is left after a war, suggesting that in people’s lives war is nothing but an humanitarian emergency.
He stubbornly wants to evidence the uselessness of every war. Soligno identified four tracks along the following figures: Dignity, Humanity, Knowledge and Destruction.
In his pictures he uses several languages: places scratched by destruction and loss, portraits of people who lived the war on first line, snapshots taken from very rare videos of fire days shot by Palestinian cameramen, and striking portraits of Palestinian journalists who documented those days in Gaza.
Paola Riccardi