Ferdinand Scianna lives in Milan. A retrospective of his work, Le Forme del Caos, was published in Italy in 1989.
‘Photographing these people I came to realize that their lives are dominated by fear: fear of old galleries falling, of dynamite, of the spirits trapped in the mine, of tuberculosis, of the disappearance of veta (the wolfram seam), of the future.’
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