Find out the magic of Abruzzo National Park!
Il Ritratto del Tempo is a collection of my best pictures over a four year period, while on immersion experiences into the wilderness of the Abruzzo’s National Park. This photographic work aims at conveying all the strength and poetry of this place, as well as my feelings and emotions in this enchanting area.
The result of this project is a unique and original product, where you can perfectly see my love for Nature and everything that binds to it.
I became a photographer with the desire to share my feelings when alone in the wood with its enchanting colors, or facing the wild force of the blizzards. These are experiences that led me way beyond anything I could ever have imagined.
I let Mother Nature wrapped me, in order to dream and breathe better, far away from established rules and ordinary days. I craved for freedom, for deep connections and meaning.
I felt these experiences deep down within myself. I left behind all the noises, the things and knowledge learned, to capture an echo of the world, of our roots.
So I began in 2013 and repeated the experience every year, in autumn and winter seasons, I gave birth to my curiosity, creating an even closer connection with Nature
This was a singular and intense experience that I now would like to share with you.
The book project translates the paths of time through images and stories, in the inscrutable beauty of the National Park of Abruzzo. Life takes a sense that is found in the Earth breathing and the creatures that live on it… the blowing Soul of the World shattered in thousand faces of vitalistic elements carries the guest who walks among the beech woods, in the secret places of the emotions.
Every being tells a story, giving voice to moments stopped by the lens of the camera. Everything happens following the rhythms of the sovereign Nature that determines the need for the passing of the seasons, the shades, the sounds and smells of time. A collection of images that impetuously catches the user, giving him a feeling of pleasantness and balance with the infinity… The man is only a small ring of a complex mechanism that follows the seasonal rhythms, in an eternal return of the identical.
I have chosen 95 pictures showing the mysterious atmosphere of the mountains during the twilight hours, the habitual deeds of the wild animals, the force of snow, the intense colors of the autumn forests, wild and harmonious shapes… the enchantment and the continued metamorphosis of the coldest seasons of the year.
The photographs will be accompanied by texts where are written my innermost thoughts, together with my deepest doubts and feelings of these experiences. I will tell you a story of changing connections to Space, Time and the Elements: an open gate leading to a new world where landscapes and situations sometimes veer between dream and reality.
Diving into the wild beech forests. Innermost moments with natural elements. Conversations with mountains and its creatures, kings of a place so far from time. A world where Space and Time dilate, allowing thinking, movements and dreams of endless freedom. Experiencing the loneliness and the loudly silence of the hard winter, observing changing landscapes and feeding me with their colors. The power of the elements at the heart of the blizzards. Bonding with Nature to go back to origins.
The texts are poetic, metaphorical and dreamlike. With my team, I wrote down these texts to express the strongest, deepest feelings and they will be transmitted to you exactly as I experienced them.
The book is in italian and it will be translated into English so that it can travel to English-speaking countries.
Hard cover: square format 30×30 cm
160 pages
95 images
Paper: Gardamatt Art FSC 170 gr
Languages: Multilingual Italian and english
Limited to 1000 copies.
This book will require one month of work (print + shipping).
The delivery is going to be on June 2017
I have entrusted to one of the best printing companies on the market by testing their presses and printing processes, in order to have a offset print made in Italy of the highest quality.
The book will be printed on coated fine paper, woodfree, with a smooth silk surface and high print brilliance, to provide pleasant handling and feel to the touch and to perfectly translate the intensity of various nuances of graded colors and the contrasts of lights.
For more freedom of choice and expression, I decided to self-publish the book.
This project is a real dream for me and this is also a keeping with my approach during these four years of immersion. Flipping through the various pictures and stories compiled during these years makes me feel as if I were living these stunning moments again. This is what I want to share with you now.
Creating such a high quality book requires an extensive budget.
I have decided to put 250 copies of the book on the crowdfunding and you can pre-order them. The money from the pre-order will be used to print part of the 1000 copies of the book.
The price will be €49*. I want to print on a high quality support, so as to bring justice to a worthy project.
In these 49€ are included: Book + Free Shipping by express delivery (24-48h)
* This price is reserved only for Italian residents. For residents abroad, you can buy the book at a price of € 57 (shipping included)
The funds will be distributed in this way:
– Print book
– Ulule Commission: 8%
– Shipment
– Packaging
– Taxes
– The 100% achievement of the preset goals will allow the printing of 1000 copies of the book and the respective distribution.
– The 150% achievement will allow the printing of 1500 copies of the book + the production of a personal photographic exhibition with 20 Fine Art prints on large format (120 x 80 cm).
Your contributions will be the basis of the realization of this unique product.
Buying this book through subscription will allow you to receive it at home and discover it before its official launch.
To get a personalised autograph, you will be invited to my personal presentations of the book. You will get notify soon!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS. In this way you will give way to the diffusion of a unique product of its kind, expression of a perfect combination between man and nature, landscapes and emotions. Not least, I will do it as a free author.
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