POINTS BETWEEN…UP TILL NOW

This book collects for the first time images from Polidori's major photographic series Beirut, Versailles, Havanna, New Orleans and Pripyat and Chernobyl, giving a general impression of his work. Each of the series constitutes an experimental entity whose goal is to reveal something that no longer exists. They reflect a particular world of memory, the relationship between the present and the past, and explore themes of profound historical significance. By juxtaposing human suffering, destruction and the magnificence born of man's imagination, these multi-layered images provoke highly emotional reactions. In his explorations of reality, the artist creates a theater of absence, of commemoration.