The Third Island traces a year-long journey through Calabria, mapping territories shaped and scarred by large-scale infrastructural works such as the A3 Salerno–Reggio Calabria motorway and the port of Gioia Tauro. Conceived on the anniversaries of these projects, it unfolds as a multidisciplinary investigation into how political ambition, economic speculation, and architectural intervention alter the physical and social fabric of a place.
Eleven photographers, guided by journalists, activists, and local entrepreneurs, travelled across the region, gathering stories, landscapes, and fragments of daily life. The resulting body of work moves beyond the reductive imagery of mainstream narratives, offering a layered portrait of a land suspended between transformation and abandonment—a Calabria where unfinished ambitions coexist with resilience, and where the marks left by Major Works are as much human as they are territorial.