Gabriele Basilico was an Italian photographer born in
Milan who trained as an architect and graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1973.
His works focused around traditional landscape photography, but he later
shifted his focus to architectural photography due to the influence of his previous
studies in architecture. His first major exhibition, held in Milan, presented
factory portraits of buildings only. In 1990 he went to Berlin to document the
aftermath of the fall of the wall and he also accepted a commission to document
Beirut in the wake of the 15-year-long Lebanese civil war.
He photographed this building in Beirut during the
1991 war. This photograph shows a completely abandoned four-storey building with
no roof mainly on the right side.
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