November 2025 — Rome

At the quiet margins of the Roman countryside, the life of a shepherd unfolds through a sequence of ancient, essential, repeated gestures. Beside him, the dogs and the flock inhabit the same slow time — made of waiting, crossings, and shared presences.

The images emerge from a discreet proximity, searching for the threshold between isolation and belonging: a space where solitude is not absence, but a form of listening. The landscape becomes a living body, a silent interlocutor, while the relationship with the animals reveals a primal, almost archaic dimension of being.

The project moves between intimacy and distance, observing a way of life that resists contemporary rhythms and preserves, within its simplicity, the possibility of quiet.