Enel Power Station Genoa

As a last activity on the Italian leg of the quit coal tour, my esteemed colleagues at Greenpeace decided to do a banner hanging and paint job on Enel's coal-fired power station in Genoa. I spent several days scouting locations and vantage points from where to shoot the thing. Funnily enough, the pictures taken during the scouting are dearer to me than the ones shot on the day... but decide for yourselves...

Pirate ship shenanigans

First evening in the port of Genoa, a huge pirate ship on display, some drinks and we just couldn't resist...

Here's our object of desire by daytime...

Nighttime visitations

This morning I documented Greenpeace activists shutting down the coal supply to a power plant in Porto Torres, Sardinia. There is something fascinating about huge, dirty industrial sites at night, and especially thrilling when you know that there is a limited amount of time available to get out before being arrested. So most of these shots happened under cover of darkness whilst we were running around on mountains of dusty, soft coal and huge pieces of machinery. Needless to say, I found it exciting and visually very stimulating. A few of my selection here:

Isla de Giglio

En route to Sardinia, we went to anchor for a night at the beautiful small island of Giglio. Peace and tranquility ruled the moods, and I topped it off by sleeping under a full canopy of bright stars. Old romantic fool, me... ;-)

Back to sea

I spent less than 8 hours in London, arriving late one night, and leaving very early the next morning before sunrise. Oddly enough, I am now on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and we're continuing our campaign to quit coal. There are many things on the menu, but for now a few activists got creative and painted a quayside from their inflatable boat.