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Contingency Plans

According to the rules imposed by the Government, non-essential Italian economic activities were halted during the emergency by COVID-19. Those considered non-strategic reacted with resourcefulness and a spirit of solidarity, making themselves available to be reinvented and to support the common effort. Mattia Balsamini photographs the Italian excellences that have chosen sudden industrial reconversions, emergency production, volunteer workers who have accepted the risk of making closed factories live to create sanitizing gels, masks, protective visors, oxygen cylinders and respirators.