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About this series
There are more than 15 million vending machines in the world. Of these, more than 5 million are in Japan, which, in fact, holds the highest share in the world, both in terms of total number of machines and in terms of the number of machines per inhabitant and per square meter.
With a population of 120 million inhabitants, the calculation is easy: one vending machine for every 24 people. To get a clearer idea of the phenomenon, we can compare this number with the United States (second place with 2 million distributors) which reaches one distributor for every 164 people.
But what is a vending machine? A refrigerator is the answer. It is open 24 hours a day for 365 days, and consumes 3650Kw / h per year, like a family of 2, perhaps even more. All this to ensure that we never miss a cold drink on every street corner.
AveCoke wants to be the solemn and final greeting to a world that we have left behind, with all the sustainability that characterized it.
Luigi Stranieri explains, that ‘through this project I wanted to make human selfish and spoiled nature extreme, bringing vending machines to natural and unimaginable places, as if they were totems, to remind us that the world is not just us. I did relate extreme anthropization to the rural landscape, and questioned the ways in which man continues not to give up his vices, despite the fact that we have been talking about climate change and poverty for years.’
Images in this project are all digitally manipulated and no photos were taken by Stranieri, except for the vending machines. All photos are screenshots taken by using the ‘google camera car’ or taken by ‘google contributors’.
‘I think it’s important to reflect on a fundamental fact: nothing surprises us anymore and everything can be real if we read it somewhere, on the web or by hearsay. Therefore these photos, if presented in the right way and duly altered, can become a new reality, without any of us asking the right question,’ says Stranieri.
Artist Bio
Italian born Luigi Stranieri is a photographer and collector living and working in Nagoya, Japan. Stranieri works offchain and onchain. His latest photography book ‘itsu mo arigatou’ has been sold out.
The distance from his Italian culture of origin has allowed Stranieri to find a privileged point of view from which to observe humanity that surrounds him: his images tell stories of the everyday, exploring places, investigating the relationship between space and the individual–the individual and collective stories that intertwine in cities. Stranieris’ photographs are a witness of his time and of his own life.
Photographer: Luigi Stranieri
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