Photos by Andrea Alessio
Before You, Santa Claus, Life Was Like a Moonless Night
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One more time, it’s Christmas time! We would like to wish you all a happy holiday season through the poetic pictures in Andrea Alessio’s series Before You, Santa Claus, Life Was Like a Moonless Night. In these photographs, Andrea Alessio caught the festive lights brightening up the otherwise pitch-dark nights in the North-East of Italy, a region which used to be defined as the “engine” of the country, but is now suffering greatly from the current economic crisis.
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