Across the south of Italy, unfinished foundations and concrete frames rise from a landscape of rolling hills and thick canopies of trees. Many look as though their building crews and cranes stepped off site only yesterday; others as though they were abandoned decades ago.

These "interrupted" remains are the focus of French photographer Amélie Labourdette's series "Empire of Dust." For the project, she spent a month traveling across Sicily, Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia with her assistant Wilfried Nail documenting the country's abandoned building sites, which are almost as ubiquitous as vineyards and orchards in the regions.

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