In worlds on the borders of industrialized society there are companies that seem to move at different speeds where the initiative and imagination of the individual have not yet been replaced by entrepreneurial activities characterized by a jumble of unscrupulous operational skills, capital, structures and profit. Here again manual skills and imagination do not necessarily Continue Reading
In recent decades, a huge environmental disaster has taken place, almost unknown, but perhaps the most serious; serious because widely foreseen since 1964 by specially commissioned studies and yet consciously pursued. The Aral was a large salt lake, almost three times the size of Sicily. So big that it is called “sea”, the Aral Sea. Continue Reading
Memories make noise: sounds, voices of travelers, children’s laughter, winds, which in the desert are breathed (or amalgamated with) with the sand and on the coasts become pleasant breezes. The mobile gaze wants to immortalize everything: slightly jagged horizons, bushes of tiring green, soft dunes that divide the space with the liquid blue, devoured by Continue Reading
The Wakhan corridor is an impervious strip of land that extends into the northeastern part of Afghanistan; area among the most remote in the world, it was crossed by Alexander the Great in 327, by Marco Polo in 1271 and by Genghis Khan in the thirteenth century: branch of the ancient Silk Road, it was Continue Reading
On the fly to Tunisia I had only one desire: to go beyond what I had already seen and stop taking normal photos of beautiful places, to start taking beautiful photos of normal places. But immediately I ran into a difficulty. What was really normal in a world so far away and so different from Continue Reading
Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” These images tell the story of the journey before and after school. In this school in Zanzibar there are no desks, chairs or school supplies. All these guys have is a notebook and their memory. Knowledge is transmitted to Continue Reading
We are in northern India. The Pakistani border overlooking the Arabian Sea. Entering these factories is not easy, through some people well integrated into the social context, friends of friends who get us a permit to visit these huge sheds with frightening heat. We are embraced by fields of still smoking steel, deafening noises and Continue Reading
Traveling to remote places I realized that beauty is everywhere and is found in the diversity of people. Their uniqueness makes humanity special. This awareness and the need to preserve our roots together with our planet should guide our every gesture, our every thought, our every choice. Kyrgyz women live in the dust of high-altitude Continue Reading
Traveling in the Amazon was like coming home, returning to a feeling of communion with nature and its sacredness. Water, sky, trees, ancient dances and songs, the Amazon is all this and much more, a suspended space and time, where visible and invisible, natural and supernatural merge and merge. Every discomfort and every difficulty are Continue Reading
The Urgench cattle market takes place on the outskirts of this remote village in the northern region of Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. The market reaches the village after the celebration of the Uzbek new year called Navrùz, which coincides with the arrival of spring; it is an important event above all for the neighboring agricultural areas Continue Reading