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Thirty Three Doors

La Casa del Sol

by Giovanni Savino

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About the Book
I always had a fascination for that house.

Every time I traveled to San Juan De la Maguana, once flourishing, now decadent frontier city of the Dominican Republic, just a few kilometers away from the Haitian border, I found myself walking around it and photographing it from the street.

What intrigued me more than the sheer size of this yellow painted wooden building, more than its luxuriously self-indulging, yet Spartan shape, was the absurd number of doors it had all around, both on the lower and on the upper floor.

I kept trying counting all those doors, hoping to reach a definite number, but strangely, I always lost count......

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Features & Details
  • Primary Category: Architecture
  • Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
    # of Pages: 78
  • Publish Date: Apr 29, 2012
  • Language English
  • Keywords architecture, conservation, house, building, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, tradition, wood, Casa del Sol
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About the Creator
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Giovanni Savino
New York, NY, USA

Giovanni Savino, an Italian-American photographer, based in New York for over two decades and recently returned to his native Italy, worked for CBS News in various roles for about 30 years. He has independently produced a series of documentaries on folk music and disappearing oral traditions that have been broadcast on PBS, CNN International, and are in the permanent collections of many academic institutions in the United States and abroad. A speaker at TED-X, Giovanni is currently a practitioner of "Slow Photography", trying to divulge the use of large format equipment and techniques of the past, while developing new strategies for the sustainability of analog photography in our digital age. Giovanni operated a large format portrait studio and darkroom in Manhattan, New York, for many years. Since he moved back to Italy, he continues to offer portraiture sessions by appointment and analog photography workshops.

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