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"Is it possible to photograph a past life?" Robert Polidori asks in his new book Unknown Prophecies, "To capture the unseen, the forgotten, the spectral residue of a soul's former dwelling?" Polidori's alluring yet haunting subject here is the abandoned churches of Naples, once glorious sites of Christian worship, today neglected and dilapidated relics. His approach is meticulous, his focus on the flaking frescoes, broken sculptures and crumbling bones and votive shrines that embody an evaporation of faith. Among these vestiges, the purgatory cult endures, a theology of intercession still murmuring in the margins of Naples' fractured sanctuaries. As always with Polidori's photos of deserted human environments, he does not simply catalogue what was, but poetically inquire into the cryptic traces that remain. These images are mediations on ghostly places where memory still clings to stone and shadow, psychic vessels that invite us to contemplate our own impermanence and the meanings of a tattered devotional past. Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 and today lives in Ojai, California. Polidori's work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions, and he received the World Press Photo Award in 1997, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography in 1999 and 2000, and Communication Arts Awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2006 his series of photographs of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Polidori's bestselling books Havana (2002), Zones of Exclusion - Pripyat and Chernobyl (2004), After the Flood (2006), Parcours Muséologique Revisité (2009), Some Points in Between ... Up Till Now (2010), Eye and I (2014) and Chronophagia (2014) are all published by Steidl.
