Published by Kerber. Text by John Hooper, Petra Reski, Ambros Waibel.
German photographer Christian Jungeblodt (born 1962) captures the uglier side of Italy overlooked by tourists—poverty, chaos, environmental pollution, the mafia, a corrupt and decadent political system—and in doing so makes visible the closeness of beauty and ugliness, luster and squalor, grandeur and the abyss.