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We employed the ESO MPI wide-field camera and obtained deep images in the VIcpass-bands in the region of the IC 2944/2948 complex (l ~ 294; b ~ -1), andcomplemented them with literature and archival data. We used this material toderive the photometric, spectroscopic and kinematic properties of the brightest(V < 16) stars in the region. The VI deep photometry on the other end, helpedus to unravel the lower main sequence of a few, possibly physical, star groupsin the area.  Our analysis confirmed previous suggestions that the extinction toward thisline of sight follows the normal law (Rv = 3.1). We could recognize B-typestars spread in distance from a few hundred pc to at least 2 kpc. We found twoyoung groups (age ~ 3 Myr) located respectively at about 2.3 and 3.2 kpc fromthe Sun. They are characterized by a significant variable extinction (E(B-V)ranging from 0.28 to 0.45 mag), and host a significant pre-main sequencepopulation. We computed the initial mass functions for these groups andobtained slopes Gamma from -0.94 to -1.02 (e_Gamma = 0.3), in a scale where theclassical Salpeter law is -1.35. We estimated the total mass of both mainstellar groups in ~ 1100$ and ~ 500$ Mo, respectively. Our kinematic analysisindicated that both groups of stars deviate from the standard rotation curve ofthe Milky Way, in line with literature results for this specific Galacticdirection.  Finally, along the same line of sight we identified a third group ofearly-type stars located at ~ 8 kpc from the Sun. This group might be locatedin the far side of the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm.

A deep and wide-field view at the IC 2944 / 2948 complex in Centaurus