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Vele
Tobias Zielony

576 pp.
287 colour illustrations
thread-sewn lay-flat brochure



Leipzig July, 2014
ISBN: 9783944669533
Edition Number: 1

Width: 20 cm
Length: 26.3 cm

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Author
Tobias Zielony

Designer
Katharina Köhler, Spector Bureau

Photographer
Tobias Zielony

»Le Vele di Scampia« is a futuristic housing estate in northern Naples and a Camorra battlefield. Conceived by Francesco di Salvo in the late seventies and widely recognised for their urbanistic, »Le Vele« (The Sails) were squatted by mafia families even before completion. Today the building complex is a symbol of the Camorra’s power in the Naples region and a key centre of European drug trafficking. Matteo Garrone shot his movie »Gomorra« based on the Novel by Roberto Saviano on the site in 2008. Tobias Zielony’s film »Le Vele di Scampia« from 2009 originates in this very place. Seven thousand single images, shot at night with a digital single-lens reflex camera, are used to create nine minutes of animation film. The book »Vele« is based on this animation film with an selection of 287 single images.

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