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The Ischia Sketcher. Reportage from Ischia after the earthquake

[by Simo Capecchi in Ischia, Italy]  

 On last August 21 an earthquake in Casamicciola village on Ischia island made 2 victims and obliged 2.000 citizens to find a new home. In the same area two big quakes already happened in 1881 and 1883: the village was completely destroyed and back then victims were more than 2.000. Why people rebuild in the same area is an issue would deserve some researches.

Together with Gabi Campanario and Caroline Peyron I was holding a reportage workshop on the island in October 2017, two months after the quake, so among a number of other locations and assignments, we asked for a permission to sketch inside the red zone with a small group of participants. A fireman and few citizens guided us along abandoned streets where the main damage occurred, showed us remains of their houses and told us about their hopes and activities to keep the public attention alive on their needs and on possible reconstruction.



Our workshop had also the very ambitious goal of printing a newspaper, "The Ischia Sketcher", on the fourth morning just after 3 days of sketching, to be distributed locally. This 16 pages newspaper should have included both images and texts, translated in Italian and English, and hopefully at least one drawing of a team of 38 participants, guests artists and instructors. This project intended to pay a tribute to past centuries' newspapers and reporter artists and to learn from Gabi Campanario's passion and work as an artist and columnist for the Seattle Times.

As you may guess, we had a hard time to fulfill our mission. Nevertheless the newspaper has been printed, distributed to participants and locals with some hundreds copies left to a citizens association to raise donations for Casamicciola reconstruction - and this part was a success!
While to include (scan, fixing, translating) contributes from everybody turned out to be impossible for the lack of time. We apologized to participants for the pressure we put on them and we are sorry that just half of them are represented on the printed issue. And I am really grateful to all of them for their participation to this challenging workshop. You can flip through all 16 pages of the Ischia Sketcher here and see our team in action and more drawings in these photos (made by photographer Enzo Rando).

This experience shown us how difficult it is to coordinate such a diverse group of sketchers coming from 10 different countries, scattered along the island in more than 15 different places, with logistic and language issues, at the expense of our main task, that of improving the group drawing skills. But it also showed how thrilling it is and how much work and skills it requires to have a reportage printed right away and distributed to locals on real paper, for once, instead of the usual online sharing of the majority of our sketches, where we have no deadline and is always possible to correct mistakes. Below the 4 inner pages plus the cover dedicated to Casamicciola red zone:






Talking about newspapers, I am always curious in the old ways to approach a visual reportage and while writing this post I found the work of artists who reported about Casamicciola terrible quakes more than a century ago. Christian Wilhelm Allers for instance went there on his own (he also worked as a lithographer and printmaker) in 1893, ten years after the biggest earthquake, and published his drawings in the book "la Bella Napoli". His freehand notes on the sketches are in Italian and apparently are done on location, and the work did not loose completely the unfinished aspect of a live drawing. A portrait of a "survived" old man reporting his comments in neapolitan dialects looks "familiar" to me:

In 1883, just after the earthquake, Italian artists like neapolitan Edoardo Matania were sent by newspaper L'Illustrazione Italiana to cover the event on location. In this case, drawings would be published with the note "disegno dal vero", although the drawing appears as a composition made after several sketches with a (total) loss of spontaneity:



Finally I found some British newspapers issues of The Illustrated London News (1881) and its competitor, The Graphic (1883) who report about the two Casamicciola's earthquakes with engravings "supplied by photographs", as mentioned in the inner pages of the London News, where the drawing is a composition of views organized like in comics stripes:

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