Recognized as a region of relative calm and prosperity, Central Italy is crossed by numerous social, cultural, and economic boundaries. Etrurian State of Mind is an emotional journey, who wants to go beyond journalistic information and be transported by places and people.
“After many years abroad, my country has transformed into the most exotic of settings. I began to photograph in places that, only a few years earlier, would have seemed so familiar, yet today I struggle to understand and interpret it. After fifteen years away, spent documenting social conflicts in the Balkans and Latin America, I decided to return to Italy”.
Inhabited by the little-known Etruscan people before the Roman era. Red Belt during the 70s and 80s of the last century. Now a worldwide touristic hotspot, afflicted by the depopulation of the Appennine, agricultural crisis and industrial abandonment, a land of saints, peasant traditions and ancestral magical beliefs. Etrurian State of Mind is the story of an irrational return, and the reconstruction of a lost everyday life.
