American Dream

There are places that more than others reminds us the influence of American culture on our society. When you get to Casalpalocco, driving along the Christopher Columbus St. straight and long as an American highway, you feel projected onto the scene of Truman Show. Anglo-Saxon’s appearance houses in the green separated by roads with Greek names. A place created in the 60s in the myth of well-being to give the residence to the pilots of the emerging national airline: Alitalia. That has been developed over the years in a rigid architectural scheme governed by the Consortium. An exclusive place whose inhabitants, "the palocchini" rivaled with "Pariolini", resident in the other "high society" suburb of Rome. In Casalpalocco there are McDonald's and Burger King, 4 shopping centers, a dozen of Megamarket and fitness centers, but only two libraries. There's Drive In, in use for over 15 years and now abandoned. The culture of opulence dominates. But behind this facade so perfect in those all identical reassuring houses, in this magical harmony you begin to feel the bourgeois decadence. Inspired by the works of New Topographic photographers, such as Stephen Shore and Robert Adams, Daniel Cametti Aspri wanted to take aspects of this paradoxical and surreal place created the myth of the American Dream.