"the Broken Childhood in the shots of Mario Spada

The photographic exhibition by Mario Spada entitled "Infanzia Violata", the "Broken Childhood" opened on Monday February 16 at Casal di Principe in the county of Caserta, Teatro della Legalità. Mario Spada, Neapolitan photojournalist and backstage photographer of the film "Gomorra" by Matteo Garrone, loves his hometown and with it all its complex and contradictory reality marked by often extreme and painful situations.
This love is real and makes itself a non hipocryte witness, going to deeply explore this uncomfortable reality trying to capture the essence, investigating the pain, the injustice, the bitterness, never lacking of sympathy and strong compassion.
His camera, managed with intellectual honesty and without falling into easy sentimentalism, is the medium that conveys and decommits in this adventure, providing glimpses of life that can't leave indifferent.
The results of these "soul explorations" are intense, difficult, compliant photographs, which clash with the padded world that paradoxically is dished up to us everyday more and more roughly.
In the specific case, this particular exhibition about children and their violated world, the complaint is made even more dramatic, we can say struggling, because the sense of powerlessness generated is substantial; the camera mercilessly captured a number of abuses and situations immersed in a context of pain, delinquency, poverty, prevarication and violence.
Twenty Photographs mounted on panels in the Hall of the theater (il Teatro della Legalità) narrate through a silent scream "the daily hell of the too many many children forced to a life deprived of the basic rights of peace, love, protection, education and entertainment."
"There are children - Spada wrote in a note - who are segregated and enslaved, who suffer violences of all kinds, who are been sold by families to the warlords, who become sacrificial lambs and victims of crime in the plans of the mafia clans, who fall in the Cammorra wars cross-fire." The show is "a personal action against all that." The symbolic choice of the venue for the exhibition, open to visitors until Thursday March 5 (ending 10/13 and 18.30/20, on business days and 18/20 hours on Sunday and holidays, free entrance), at the new theater of Legality (Teatro della Legalità) opened in the omonym park built in Casal di Principe on the confiscated land to the boss of the Casalesi clan, Francesco "Sandokan" Schiavone.