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Head along the Miami Beach boardwalk, and you will stumble across the Fontainebleau Hotel, where Claudia Pajewski's The Hands of the City was born. L'Aquila stood silent and still for years, in the wake of the 2009 earthquake and the poor political management that followed. Suddenly, three years ago, the reconstruction began. Cranes sprouted everywhere, forming a channel between the destroyed city and the sky. A city however, doesn't rebuild itself. It is rebuilt by thousands of people, thousands of hands - as Pajewski's title suggests. Still today, most of the 'urban humanity' of L'Aquila is made up of these builders. They repair the buildings and act as a human counterbalance to the citizens of L'Aquila, many of whom find it hard to return to the city after such a long time. These men arrive at dawn and leave at sunset, sleeping in dormitories close to work. Most of them have left other countries, other lands, to come and rebuild an ancient city from scratch. Pajewski's photographs tell a story inextricably linked to the empty city gradually filling up, a city that has lost its urban fabric but is fighting to start anew. AUTHOR: Claudia Pajewski (L'Aquila, 1979) is an independent photographer who lives and works between Rome and L'Aquila. Her photographic research tends towards the strongly political, focusing in particular on issues of gender identity and social change. Specialising in documentary, portraits and stage photography, she won the Hysterio Prize in 2012 and has had her images published in national newspapers such as the Repubblica XL, whom she collaborated with between 2008 and 2013. 80 b/w images

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Claudia Pajewski (L'Aquila, 1979) is an independent photographer who lives and works between Rome and L'Aquila. Her photographic research tends towards the strongly political, focusing in particular on issues of gender identity and social change. Specialising in documentary, portraits and stage photography, she won the Hysterio Prize in 2012 and has had her images published in national newspapers such as the Repubblica XL, whom she collaborated with between 2008 and 2013.

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