Television, politics, and power: Photographer Stefano De Luigi on capturing Italy’s Berlusconi years

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Through his project "TELEVISIVA", Stefano De Luigi aims to expose the cultural decline and media manipulation that defined Italy during Silvio Berlusconi's political rise.

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00:00There was a design behind all these kind of programs, and the design was to reduce, to

00:10narrow the space of democracy somehow.

00:26It has passed 30 years since I began this project.

00:44Now there is a time to see the things with the distance, with the lens of history.

00:50I wanted to give back a feeling I had since the beginning when I was working on television

00:58environment in Italy, which was this wish and this need from my side to tell about the

01:07big story.

01:11The big story was how a man who was controlling a lot of media in Italy became a prime minister.

01:20So he made this jump from the economical life to a political life.

01:27First of all, the culture of us against them.

01:32If you don't think like me, you are an enemy.

01:35There is no space for discussion.

01:38There is no space for critical thoughts.

01:41And secondly is how the women were presented.

01:46It goes with some populistic ideas to reduce the space of rights of women and reduce their

01:55image to, I'm sorry to say that, it's very brutal, but a piece of meat.

02:01The main idea was enjoy yourself with this kind of program, enjoy the life, don't think

02:09too much and for the serious thing, let the things to me to supervise the serious thing.

02:17I think now that the place that was occupied before by television now is taken by social

02:26media.

02:27Each politician has his own spin doctor and a team to communicate.

02:37I'm thinking about Meloni today, but Salvini yesterday, definitely Trump.

02:45One picture can change the world?

02:47No, definitely not.

02:49But if I can add a brick to a consciousness, even one people, for me it's a success.

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