Taranto. I lower my camera and turn to face the female voice behind me. "Tutto rotto!" She smiles shyly and shrugs apologetically. As if she were personally responsible for the decay of the old town. I smile back. "Rotto, ma bellissimo!" We did these photos 2021 and 2022 in Taranto, Apulia and had a commeon exhibition at tunnel19Studio in Berlin in 2022.