2nd place
silver star award
Roberto Pireddu
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Poetto is the town beach of Cagliari, the largest and most populous urban centre of Sardinia.
This beach has always been the flagship of the city, with its fine and thin white sand and its “casotti”, little buildings midway between a changing room and a little beach house, removed at the end of Eighties.
At their place, along the 8 kilometers and more of dark sand, currently, disharmonic beach resorts alternate with crumbling structures abandoned to themselves. Few years ago, furthermore, an unscrupulous attempt, trying to restore the old superfine white sand typical of the beach, has changed color and grain size making it dark and very coarse.
Between the simple and infinite greatness of the sea and men's actions who often, from ten years about on this coast, mean mess and decline, people of Cagliari who has knew the real beauty of the Poetto compare with what it was and what it is now.
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ma | re (in english "mare" means "sea”)Poetto is the town beach of Cagliari, the largest and most populous urban centre of Sardinia.
This beach has always been the flagship of the city, with its fine and thin white sand and its “casotti”, little buildings midway between a changing room and a little beach house, removed at the end of Eighties.
At their place, along the 8 kilometers and more of dark sand, currently, disharmonic beach resorts alternate with crumbling structures abandoned to themselves. Few years ago, furthermore, an unscrupulous attempt, trying to restore the old superfine white sand typical of the beach, has changed color and grain size making it dark and very coarse.
Between the simple and infinite greatness of the sea and men's actions who often, from ten years about on this coast, mean mess and decline, people of Cagliari who has knew the real beauty of the Poetto compare with what it was and what it is now.
about the photographer
Born on October, 5th 1984 in Cagliari (Sardinia) and currently based in Bologna.back to gallery
