3648 Washington Blvd
St Louis, Missouri 63108

Since 1999, Jay Wolke has captured the complexity of a landscape called the 'Mezzogiorno' in southern Italy. What he found in this storied landscape is an elaborate set of physical, social and political structures, manifesting in an extraordinary fusion of visual information. On one level, the images he creates are referential and documentary -- but on another, they are about what is hidden and implied. These large-scale color photographs tell stories that expose the rise and fall of various colonial, political and commercial powers, as well as the inspired, but often faltering, inventions of ambitious individuals.

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