I’ve always had a complicated relationship with my home country. The stereotypical love and hate, if you will.
This led me to move abroad for 7 years.
That time away made me appreciate the extremely beautiful aspects of my culture and people that used to be overshadowed by a more negative outlook before.
This is a collection about my rekindled love for my Italy, showcasing its enormously vast regional diversities, and the people that bring its gorgeous surroundings to life every day.
Venezia
“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.”
– Frida Giannini.
Verona
“There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.”
– William Shakespeare.
Napoli
“Napule è mille culure
Napule è mille paure
Napule è a voce de' criature
Che saglie chianu chianu
E tu sai ca' non si sulo”
– Pino Daniele.
Emilia-Romagna
“Towards evening I got out of this ancient, venerable, and learned city, and extricated myself from its crowds, who, protected from the sun and weather by the arched bowers which are to be seen in almost every street, walk about, gape about, or buy, and sell, and transact whatever business they may have.”
– Goethe.
A selection of shots taken in Bologna, Ravenna, Piacenza and Modena.
Sicilia
“To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.”
- Goethe.
A selection of shots taken in Catania, Acireale and Taormina.
Firenze
“Through these old streets I wander dreamily; Around me Florence sweeps her busy tide of life.”
- William Leighton.
Milano
“Milan is a true metropolis: strong and fearless but welcoming, too. Little by little, I came to realise that I could become someone here.”
- Giorgio Armani.
Roma
“Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.”
- Goethe.
Genova
“It is a place that ‘grows upon you’ every day. There seems to be always something to find out in it. There are the most extraordinary alleys and by-ways to walk about in. You can lose your way twenty times a day, if you like; and turn up again, under the most unexpected and surprising difficulties. It abounds in the strangest contrasts; things that are picturesque, ugly, mean, magnificent, delightful, and offensive, break upon the view at every turn.”
- Charles Dickens.
