Andrea Galad’s Holy Ghost Haunts A Factory Before It Disappears

A Factory Ghost Story, Shot In Sharp Industrial Light

Berlin-based photographer Andrea Galad brings a beautifully haunted charge to Holy Ghost, a photo series rooted in the threatened history of the Alumetal factory in Rovereto, northern Italy.

The project turns a vanishing industrial landmark into something part protest, part séance, and part architectural fever dream. Galad’s lens does not treat the factory like dead space. It treats it like a body with memory still humming inside the walls.

Originally shared via HOMOTOGRAPHY, the series was framed as a response to the demolition of Alumetal / Montecatini, a historic factory site in Galad’s hometown. That gives Holy Ghost its bite: the beauty is there, yes, but so is the ache of a place being erased.

And because this is INYIM, we are obviously here for the drama of ruins, shadows, and a title that knows exactly what it is doing. Holy Ghost does not whisper “abandoned building.” It says the building is still speaking, darling. Listen closer.

Galad’s images sit in that deliciously uneasy space between art photography and industrial elegy. The factory becomes more than a backdrop; it becomes a witness, a stage, and a very stylish accusation against forgetting.

Holy Ghost By Andrea Galad

The full Holy Ghost series follows below, moving through the stark rooms, industrial bones, and charged atmosphere of Rovereto’s Alumetal factory.

Source: HOMOTOGRAPHY. This archived INYIM post was restored and lightly reformatted for readability.