LIBYA - WAR IS SURREAL by Luca Sola

On the night of February17th 2011, a revolution against Muammar Gaddafi’s 40-year-old regime broke out in Libya. Six days later, on the night of February 23rd, I crossed the Libyan border from Egypt, coming from Cairo, and tried to move West as far as possible in the following weeks, in order to document what was happening. In October, during my second mission in Libya, I been in the Western part of the country. These images are part of the work I did in those days.

I focussed my work on the surreal feeling emerging from everyday life, when society's rules are subverted by the necessities of war. In this context reality becomes much more similar to a page of a book about partisan Resistance than to the typical iconography of contemporary war.