Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis – As part of the 17th edition of the Rencontres Photo Gaspésie International Photography Festival, taking place in Quebec, Canada, and dedicated this year to the theme of Errances ("Wanderings"), visitors will be able to see visual artist Matteo de Mayda’s exhibition There Is No Calm After the Storm from 15 July to 30 September. Presented in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal, the exhibition is hosted in Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis. De Mayda’s photographs document the extreme weather event that struck north-eastern Italy in October 2018, when powerful Sirocco winds, with gusts reaching 200 km/h across the Dolomites, brought down around 14 million trees. Torrential rain caused rivers to overflow, sweeping debris downstream, while entire mountain villages were flooded or severely damaged. Created in collaboration with journalist Cosimo Bizzarri, the TESAF and DAFNAE departments of the University of Padua, and supported by ISPA 2021 funding, There Is No Calm After the Storm examines the long-term consequences of the disaster by combining documentary photography, scientific research and archival work. The project explores the causes, impacts and future scenarios of the event, with the aim of raising awareness of the urgency of the climate crisis and the fragile balance between human activity and ecosystem stability. Born in Treviso and now based in Venice, De Mayda addresses socio-environmental issues through an objective visual language developed in dialogue with archival and scientific research. (9colonne)