Turistica
Photographer Carlo Rusca’s project ‘Turistica’ is a visual journey dedicated to all the small tourist destinations and their lonely citizens.
The pictures were taken in his hometown Locarno, in the southern part of Switzerland.
Photography and text by Carlo Rusca
The season is over. The Autumn wind shakes the branches of the trees, solitary witnesses in a motionless space.
In a house of someone who cannot sleep, a television lightens up the pale white painted rooms. Empty hotel neon lights reflect their luminescence on the windscreen of my car.
Silence is filled with small, almost imperceptible, sounds:
old bulbs flickering, radiators and ventilation systems sizzling in the dark.
Everything looks the same, orderly and ready.
Perfectly outlined. It’s hard to not feel alone.
I get out of the car and I light up a cigarette while watching a big calf vanishes like a ghost in the haze that has risen in the meantime.
His story is already written. He is stuck.
Nothing can be changed. Here is the light of dawn.
I think about the people I lost and who has lost himself in this place.
Animals speak to me and palms look like fireworks.
You couldn’t feel bad.
About Carlo
Carlo Alberto Rusca was born in Turin (Italy) in 1989. He is currently based in Lugano (Switzerland), where he works as freelance photographer and filmmaker. Since 2015, he’s also teaching photography and audiovisual sciences at CSIA in Lugano.
His recent work ‘Turistica’ is available as a photo book and has been selected for several national and international exhibitions, among others, Vogue Italia Photovogue festival 2019 in Milan and Aperture Summer Open 2019: Delirious Cities at Aperture Foundation, New York.
To see more Carlo’s work, visit his website or follow him on Instagram
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