Presentation of the book "Silent Light" on gallium-4 August 2018

Cultural encounter with presentation of the book "Silent Light"

Saturday 4 August 2018, at 20.45 hours, at the Council Chamber of Gallium, will present the book "light of silence" by Gigi Abriani.  

This beautiful photo book covers all the most significant stages of World War I in a new outfit: all Italian Highland forts, Cengio, Zebio, the Ortigara, all shrines Valentine were photographed in a new context, namely that of the night.

An appointment that enriches the cultural program galliese and that will involve many fans and not.

PRESENTATION BOOK "SILENT LIGHT" OF THE AUTHOR

The pages of this book does not describe the dramas of millions of soldiers and civilians, not declare acts of courage and do not describe battles and military strategies. Therefore, do not form a classic historical book.
But they want to imagine, through photographs, what that conflict was even humanly.

In the fortifications, in galleries, in Mule paths of war that still mark our territory, we were talking, she remembered, was and he expected the following day. In a Word, we lived.

As a child I saw many a summer series on the Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, experiencing the daily life of my father and my mother, who helped him dairyman.
The smell of burning wood for making cheese, thick smoke, acres pasture mixed odors, making that little world an island living its own life with rhythms and stories from another era.
There were no connections, contact with the world was the WaSP.
In the evening, lit by oil lamps, they told the stories of the forts that as Giants of concrete and iron above the pastures below.

Strong Verena, strong Campolongo, mount Ortigara, the grenadiers del Cengio: thousands of stories of war still close in time and people's memories.

Elder think of the past, the young people think that it is natural color to black and white.
All the history books have pictures in sepia, yellowed by time, slightly grainy, full of great charm.
But I, I wanted to return to give light to those places that are etched and indelible on our mountains, like scars.
I love shooting at night, everything changes, everything exists, even if you do not see.
The night is a time suspended than the day.

Light is life, I get so involved friends for what he wanted to be an experience to be lived together in magic and in the silence of the night, in an attempt to make it a worthy tribute to those who, in those fortifications and trenches, lived.
To those who, like the elderly, think with the colors of the past.

You feel the sacredness in the silence of the night, he speaks softly, it feels intruders.
Ubiquitous in the air, words of love, hope and fear.

I didn't think I'd do a book, but the material collected was rising in a crescendo of emotions, feelings and experiences.
Go there with friends who were helping me and argued, had become, for me and for them, a need: was the book which called for it to be done, we took the hand ...

Gigi Abriani