Modern Languages

Virtual exhibitions

Cesare Ballardini

"These images are part of a work called The centre of the world. They are photos taken in Boncellino, a hamlet near Bagnacavallo, in the Ravenna Province, where my uncle spent much of his adolescence. Despite being a small village, it has remained for him one of the most significant places in his life. I realized that one day when I took him there. I had my camera with me and I took some pictures. Subsequently I went back several times on my own to take more. Looking at the place with my own eyes, in tribute to his memories. I borrowed the title from an episode of Edgae Reitz’s film Heimat, where a similar situation occurs." 

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014, entitled: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape, Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy.

Black and white photograph of a road under a tunnel with a sharp turn chevroned sign at the far end

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of the end of a train platform ending in a fence of tall spiked poles, with focus on the angles and lines

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of a pair of gates made of slats, one open, with sunlight pouring through the closed one onto the ground leaving a striped walkway beside a field

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of patchy grass in a field where a vehicle has often travelled, with foliage in shade to the right and the tracks curving to the right

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of an older man in the middle of a grassy meadow, grasses up to his waist, looking away from the camera into the distance

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of a dry shallow valley under a wooden bridge with shadow from grasses and the bridge draped across the ground

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of a bare tree on a grassy slope on the right-hand side and fully-leaved trees in the background

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of a road with a park map station in the centre-right of the picture on a grass half of ground

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Black and white photograph of a wide paved road, a crack across its width in the foreground as sunlight catches a difference in tarmac colour in the centre

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Luca Nostri - Solarolo

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014, entitled: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape, Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy.

Photograph of a light pink house surrounded by a green hedge with a plot of land in the foreground and other houses nearby

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph taken from a vegetable garden behind a house looking our at the neighbourhood street. A person can be seen outside bending down.

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a fruit tree surrounded by farm equipment and plastic crates as if ready for harvest season

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a car park, a person walking way from their vehicle, and two roads leading away deeper into the lot

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a garden beside a house with a tree budding with blossom standing in the centre of the image, and the neighbourhood street in the background

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a verdant tree against a wire fence in front of a modern building, with machinery and an abandoned shopping trolley either side of it

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

A photograph at a high angle of a car park behind a depot containing a cement mixing truck and other vehicles, with three slim tree trunks mostly stripped of branches in the foreground

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a tree-lined street, each with foliage surrounding the trunk, the road clear and front gardens largely empty

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of green land split by a line of trees, with vegetable patches one side and unused yard land on the other

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of rows of dead vines, with poles visible as they poke through the top of each mound

Part of a virtual exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Virtual Exhibition – Sisto Giriodi – from the series Atlante Piemontese

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014, entitled: ‘L’esperienza del luogo’: Italian photography, writing and landscape, Luigi Ghirri, his contemporaries, his legacy.

Photograph of a path with three statues on podiums, the path cutting through grass divided by a wire fence

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph of a drive-through car wash machine with striped and coloured brushes with farmland behind

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph of a drive-through car wash machine with striped and coloured brushes with farmland behind

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph of a grass landscape with a number of archery targets placed ahead, several brick towers either side and storm clouds in the background

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph a green field, trees and mountains intersected with a road, two concrete benches and a rusted artillery gun

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph taken in a vineyard of rows with new vines sprouting and one in the centre spreading along wires for them to travel along

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014

Photograph of a lake intersected by a structure trailed by pipes

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph of two jagged gravestones placed on a grass verge beside a road with a bare field behind

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

Photograph taken from a raised concrete patio, sitting animal statues either side of some stairs looking out to fields

These images formed part of a Virtual Exhibition held during a conference at the University of Leicester, 19-21 September 2014.

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