Lost Labour

“Lost”, like something that is destined to disappear, like forgotten crafts. Also in its social meaning: devalued work, unrecognized, wasted. A poetic and profound perspective of the world of artisan work in the last decades of the 20th century. An emotional and perceptive charge runs through these images that tell of gestures, faces, hands and tools of trades now lost or deeply transformed. The photographs become the living memory of a time when “making” was identity, relationship, toil and beauty. A human and cultural heritage that is dissolving in the silence of modernity. This exhibition preserves and restores dignity to manual labour, bringing back knowledge, places and stories, which are at risk of being lost. Each shot is an act of resistance to loss, a tribute to labour as value, belonging and dignity.