2004–2023
Xinjiang
Countless km
In “Dead in Turkestan” (shot in the northwestern Muslim part of China) Giada presents the audience her photographs with intimate encounters between a traveling woman and the distant sites she visits. She refers to tales of historical events such as the "theory of the Great Game" and interweaves them with personal interpretations. Two empires, Great Britain and the Russian Empire, were fighting for this territory of Central Asia, still unknown and untold to many, mainly because of its terrifying surrounding and monstrous mountain and pitiless desert.
That part of the silk road, became the platform for ambitious journeys of western archeologists and European travelers wanting to search for the lost treasures of central Asia and bring back to the western world their fame and pride. The few that made it across the terror lands came back known as the foreign devils on the silk road (Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Paul Pelliot, Albert Von lecoqu).
2004–2023
Xinjiang
Countless km
In “Dead in Turkestan” (shot in the northwestern Muslim part of China) Giada presents the audience her photographs with intimate encounters between a traveling woman and the distant sites she visits. She refers to tales of historical events such as the "theory of the Great Game" and interweaves them with personal interpretations. Two empires, Great Britain and the Russian Empire, were fighting for this territory of Central Asia, still unknown and untold to many, mainly because of its terrifying surrounding and monstrous mountain and pitiless desert.
That part of the silk road, became the platform for ambitious journeys of western archeologists and European travelers wanting to search for the lost treasures of central Asia and bring back to the western world their fame and pride. The few that made it across the terror lands came back known as the foreign devils on the silk road (Aurel Stein, Sven Hedin, Paul Pelliot, Albert Von lecoqu).