GIULIA MANGIONE

The Fall

November, 2023

Giulia Mangione

There are several deep-rooted beliefs surrounding the end of days. Oslo-based Italian photographer Giulia Mangione went on a photographic road trip towards the apocalypse, in search for survivalists, preppers, religious cults, and bunker dwellers. From the Greek island of Patmos, where the Book of Revelation was written, to La Palma in the Canary Islands, and onwards through the west coast of the United States, Mangione explores myths surrounding the apocalypse in an attempt to understand how belonging to a community can make people feel protected from what they dread may happen.

The Fall reflects on society’s collective fear, from the imagined and irrational to the real and logical. Through a personal doomsday narrative based on interviews and portraits, the project  explores how society is preparing to face potentially catastrophic events, but also what scares us all the most – the unknown.

The Fall, FRAKT, 2023