Enter the industrial world of Marghera, the mechanical heart of the Venice Lagoon, a world that has never stopped pulsating for a hundred years: a world poised between its cumbersome past and its uncertain future, where workers of over 60 different nationalities work.

Lose yourself and marvel at places you’ve never visited before, such as the steel belly of the great ships under construction, the shadows of the abandoned bastions of the petrochemical plant, the blast furnaces and smokestacks of the refineries, the new telematics world of Vega, or the hundreds of containers that intercontinental ships ceaselessly unload at the edges of the still Lagoon.

Through the lives of workers, managers, truck drivers, and the cook of the last trattoria on Planet Marghera, Andrea Segre’s images help us understand what remains of the great dream of industrial progress for Planet Italy, today immersed, after the crises and wounds of the recent past, in the global flux of the economy and migration.