This book was born from the desire to evoke the atmosphere characteristic of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Conducted between 2006 and 2008 with a Polaroid camera SRL 690, photos of Marco Barbon stress the idea of a suspension of time and history, between a colonial past, which has left deep scars on the face of city, and a present that seems locked in an endless wait.
The dream is a break open a hole in the fabric of time. In a dream everything seems to have another rhythm, another course, both things that people are more air, more subtle, more abstract, as if they were suspended in a limbo outside of time. The same impression takes us by browsing this book: the counter of a cafe, the facade of a building, a man reading his newspaper, the sign of a store … before all this one wonders what time are we, in this or in some hidden place in our memory.

But time passes. The extraordinary architecture rationalists, the remnants of a golden age, age irreparably; traces of the past fade under the relentless sun of high plateau, even dreams of independence seems to gradually lose its consistency … What will remain, then the dream of Asmara?