At the moment, Italy is in the middle of intense political campaigns leading up to the mid-April election in which a new government will be selected to replace the collapsed regime of Roman Prodi. In Rome, that means political posters are everywhere! Walls are caked in layers of them. Special billboards are elected street side to accommodate the overflow. And each time a poster is put up, it’s only a matter of hours or days until it’s covered by another.
One artist in Rome recently likened the layers of political propaganda to an electoral lasagna, but an archaeological comparison might be just as apt, for the superimposed posters certainly attest to the constantly changing and shifting current of thoughts and words by which Italian history is being made.
In a recent downpour, many heavy layers of these posters collapsed into heaps on the street, almost as if Mother Nature was wiping the slate clean, and photographer Susan Sanders snapped a shot of the political fallout that subsequently lined the streets of Rome.
For more photographs of Rome by Susan, visit her blog: Rome With A View.
