Mutate Lands

A slow voyage into the heart of the Apennines, through the changes in the landscape created by the earthquakes of 2009 in L'Aquila and 2016 in the Marche, Umbria, Lazio and Abruzzo.

I wanted to tell about the state of abandonment of the land still today marked by the earthquake. I have seen villages rich in history and biodiversity, building a path of knowledge and relationship with the natural environment and with the people who live here. From Fabriano to L'Aquila, I crossed the Sibillini Mountains National Park and the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park. In the Mutated Lands, something has changed: the force of nature has produced changes to geography, to artifacts and above all to people. These lands remain full of life and the desire to start over and are populated by determined people who resist. In Illica, Clementina and Davide show the foundations of their house that no longer exists. Davide sits right where their kitchen was. Because staying is as important as resisting.