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On April 2009 a 5.9 earthquake hit the central Italian town L’Aquila. About 300 people died, making it one of the deadliest Italian earthquakes ever. The aftermath was characterized by an insufficient emergency plan managed by the Protezione Civile (Italian Civil Protection Service), also accused for underestimating the foreshocks since December 2008. The local Protezione Civile together with L’Aquila district (now the civil protection department has to collaborate with regions and districts) ratified in September 2011 a new emergency plan. According to this new deliberation, they selected about seventy places, called “waiting areas” and “reception areas”. In the first ones, soon after an emergency the population gets help, food and event’s information. After that, population who can’t return home, will be relocated in the “reception areas” that should be campsites with temporary accommodations. Nevertheless these places are mostly abandoned and both district and civil department never checked them. The reception areas are not equipped with structures and the most are overgrown, hardly reachable. Series were conceived and realized for the project “Confotografia-L’Aquila 2013” between September and December 2013 in the District of L’Aquila.