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A fierce analysis – with precise data listed in the photographic project Single Use by Jacopo Bellapianta – of what humanity manages to produce and disperse in nature, much of which consists of non-biodegradable waste.
These wastes will remain for centuries, if not millennia, polluting our planet – glass for at least 4,000 years, rubber from 100 to 1,000 years, polystyrene from 80 to 1,000 years, cans from 10 to 100 years, with only paper being virtuous, as it decomposes in about 2 months… This Earth of ours, which will inevitably rebel against human shortcomings with perhaps unimaginable consequences.
“Single Use” is what none of us imagine but which forcefully engulfs us and reveals what we should firmly keep in our minds: respect for everything that surrounds us.
Jacopo Bellapianta – analyzing numbers, percentages, and statistics on humanity’s consumption over the last 60 years – manages to captivate us with his photographs, where the absolute protagonists become cigarette butts, plastic bottles, a Coca-Cola can elevated to a symbol of consumerism with its unmistakable look, rubber soles, a deflated and worn-out ball.
Thus, against a pristine background, they appear, the waste, frozen by a milky light, minimal still-life paintings that silently convey their tragic message of a life of semi-eternal non-biodegradability. And then, that sand mixed with the remnants of everything that pollutes, dragged by a weary sea, those abandoned scraps, the almost indestructible waste that we humans leave in the seas, on the land, like indelible traces of our existence.
Jacopo Bellapianta, born in Venice and graduated as a Graphic Technician, trained at the John Kaverdash Academy of Photography in Milan, has been a professional documentary photographer since 2015. After starting his career as an advertising graphic designer, studio photographer, and photolithographer in various communication agencies and printing houses in his home region, he chose photography over the years, particularly documentary photography, to specialize in communication, acquiring a broader and deeper understanding of social, environmental, and political issues, becoming “a narrator who uses photography as his main form of expression.”
He has participated in numerous photographic contests and festivals. Among his solo exhibitions, Montibus in 2023 stands out, held at Nof Filò, Cencenighe Agordino (BL), and at Palazzo della Loggia, Noale (VE).
