RESIDENCE ROMA (Italy, 2006)
Until recently the Roma Residentie stood not far from the Vatican, a group of buildings where since 1983 hundreds of needy Italians could receive shelter until they found a suitable dwelling. Over the years, Massimo Berutti discovered, on the sly beds were increasingly being allocated to immigrants for exorbitant prices. He described the conditions in the Residentie as inhuman. ‘A rubbish tip. Garbage everywhere, rats everywhere, no hot water and sometimes not even any electricity.’ Berutti’s photographs unmasked the Residentie, once founded with a noble purpose, as a symbol for the corruption of the private and public sectors.
