Note from the editor:

Below growth, below politics, below exhaustion; Italy seems to be sinking beneath itself, hit by a crisis far beyond sheer economics. But below this Italy of grotesque TV parades, runaway youth and sinking morals there is much more. There is all the diversity of a country of countries, tied together by a common plague – loneliness. A cultural blessing, a social curse, a ticket to empathy.

Italiana is a descent through the unchartered, across irregular byways and small-sized characters; the secondary geography of an unglobalized country where modernity make little sense. The peasantry and the slums; the squallor and the sacred; desolation and poetry. Stylistically, Italiana aims to be a fundamentally classic photographic essay.