Between the Serchio valley and Versilia the Apuan Alps rise in all their grandeur a stone's throw from the sea. Rugged profiles and sharp peaks that almost act as a watershed between the holiday luxury of the coast and the remains of the peasant culture behind it. Between these mountains a fierce and uneven daily battle is fought between man and nature: on the one hand man, who appropriates everything that nature offers him, on the other nature, which slowly tries to recover its own spaces, thanks to its cyclic repetition. They are unique mountains of their kind, where the dense green of the woods is abruptly interrupted by the enormous white flows of debris from the marble quarries. Mountains that have become so unique that they can be compared to a gigantic work of land art, mountains sculpted by the work of man. It is a landscape in front of which thousands of unwitting tourists marvel who visit these mountains every year in search of the marble that once inspired Michelangelo, unaware of how they were and how, perhaps one day, they will return to be.
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The land in between (Series)
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Matilde Lazzari, Lucca, April 20th, 1998. Matilde’s first encounters with photography date back to her beginnings in high school where she considered—and still does—photography as the only medium that allows her the possibility of full expression, a kind of escape valve. This interest led to enrolling in photography at the European Institute of Design in Rome, where she is currently in her second year. The move also allowed her to leave the hometown where she grew up, a place that had not granted her the space to fully find herself nor create her own, personal language.
Initially, working in landscape photography—a genre that she continues to greatly admire—she has recently begun working in and gaining appreciation for other genres; among them, self-portraiture, through which she is attempts to externalize what she has never been able to express verbally.
Initially, working in landscape photography—a genre that she continues to greatly admire—she has recently begun working in and gaining appreciation for other genres; among them, self-portraiture, through which she is attempts to externalize what she has never been able to express verbally.
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