Sto preparando un nuovo manifesto che includa i valori che porto nel mio lavoro di guida e il modo in cui ho integrato la mia sensibilità verso la natura negli ultimi anni. Nel frattempo, puoi leggere questo manifesto del 2018, che sento come un fantastico punto di partenza, anche se oggi non dice tutto quello che vorrei esprimere.
MANIFESTO 2018:Wilderness is a sacred gift. We have to love and protect it as heritage of humanity. I want to transmit its perfection and inspire a responsible exploration.
Observing Wilderness
For several years now I have been traveling for some of the most remote and extraordinary places of the world, impressing me by their power and dissimilarity.
I was always overwhelmed by the immanence of Wilderness: it moves with rhythms that are completely different from human ones.
A glacier silently changes over the years, the geometries of a mountain are broken down over the centuries, while the desert transforms constantly to stay unchanged.
I started to perceive the flow of eternity, letting me a feeling of a privileged observer of the absolute.
Approaching Wilderness
Traveling, meeting and observing people, I have been impressed as the major of us feels Wilderness as a right.
How many times people define nature as a “playground”? But a playground is something we have the right to change just for our own fun. And that’s so invasive resort, helicopters approaches, organized travels with porters and many others bulimic ways of exploration are used to devour wilderness. Looks like we are gods of this world. It’s also so fancy to have a bucket list of far destinations to complete, not feeling deep any of these places.
I was traveling the same way, making count of my 10..20..30..40 countries visited, taking planes just to enjoy an outbound day 10.000km far from home, always thinking to “next” travel.
But I was missing the point, the unicity of every place I was visiting, included my home mountains and forests.
Every travel is a unique occasion of discovery and self discovery, and melting myself with wilderness is the most powerful experience in my life.
There is no doubt, when we go into wilderness we have an impact on it. We have to reduce our impact as much as possible, and we have to travel less but better, slowly and enjoying deeply every moment.
That’s why I feel that Wilderness is not a right, it’s a sacred gift, donated to us for free. We just have to love and protect it.
Exploring Wilderness
1. be open: it’s where humanity was born, even if we now forgot it.
2. be slow: technocracy make us fast, in moving and in thinking. But it’s in the space between that Wilderness penetrates us.
3. be silent: Wilderness has its own sounds, including a powerful silence, listen, always.
4. be present yourself: enjoy every single moment, it’s a gift.
5. be self sufficient: don’t hire porters, cooks, use as less help as possible. Sleep in a tent you brought on your shoulders. The experience will be more authentic and immersive.
6. limit yourself: if the destination is too far or too hard to get with your own strength, change destination.
7. preserve it: be part of a movement that aim to preserve Wilderness integrity. We need Wilderness, Wilderness don’t need us to be in it.
8. do not leave traces: to preserve Wilderness, and to leave it clean for who is coming after you.
9. do not change it: we have no right to change Wilderness to make it more human friendly. The only actions we are allowed to do on Wilderness are those made to preserve it.
10. do not cheat: your destination is too far or too hard? Change the destination, Wilderness is all around us. Cheating getting the top is cheating yourself, missing a unique occasion.
And at the end, enjoy, celebrate, enjoy: you are entering a holy reign that’s have been here since the dawn of time, be happy and thankful, celebrate its beauty.
Photographing Wilderness
In a society that disconnects from Earth, I decide to narrate the Wilderness and the connection I feel with it. My goal is to inspire exploring it responsibly, feeling instead of consuming.
My personal narration starts from photography, as there I find a connection between soul and wilderness.
Exploration allows me to oscillate between mountain landscapes and emotional scenery, the photography to narrate feelings I have in them. Facing up with this awareness, a photographic realism has lost its importance completely: I am interested in conveying my emotional vision of that place in that single moment.
I explore, and narrate, both in digital and in film. Of the first I love the total creative freedom that leaves a possibility to bring the perfection of Wilderness closer. Of the (photographic) film, I love the other side: with its grain, the surreal colors, scratches and grains of dust, it can reflect that vague and emotional vision that I have when I immerse myself into the wilderness.
I recently started taking some videos too, as I love the possibility to narrate the moving Wilderness.
Sto preparando un nuovo manifesto che includa i valori che porto nel mio lavoro di guida e il modo in cui ho integrato la mia sensibilità verso la natura negli ultimi anni. Nel frattempo, puoi leggere questo manifesto del 2018, che sento come un fantastico punto di partenza, anche se oggi non dice tutto quello che vorrei esprimere.
MANIFESTO 2018: Wilderness is a sacred gift. We have to love and protect it as heritage of humanity. I want to transmit its perfection and inspire a responsible exploration.
Observing Wilderness
For several years now I have been traveling for some of the most remote and extraordinary places of the world, impressing me by their power and dissimilarity.
I was always overwhelmed by the immanence of Wilderness: it moves with rhythms that are completely different from human ones.
A glacier silently changes over the years, the geometries of a mountain are broken down over the centuries, while the desert transforms constantly to stay unchanged.
I started to perceive the flow of eternity, letting me a feeling of a privileged observer of the absolute.
Approaching Wilderness
Traveling, meeting and observing people, I have been impressed as the major of us feels Wilderness as a right.
How many times people define nature as a “playground”? But a playground is something we have the right to change just for our own fun. And that’s so invasive resort, helicopters approaches, organized travels with porters and many others bulimic ways of exploration are used to devour wilderness. Looks like we are gods of this world. It’s also so fancy to have a bucket list of far destinations to complete, not feeling deep any of these places.
I was traveling the same way, making count of my 10..20..30..40 countries visited, taking planes just to enjoy an outbound day 10.000km far from home, always thinking to “next” travel.
But I was missing the point, the unicity of every place I was visiting, included my home mountains and forests.
Every travel is a unique occasion of discovery and self discovery, and melting myself with wilderness is the most powerful experience in my life.
There is no doubt, when we go into wilderness we have an impact on it. We have to reduce our impact as much as possible, and we have to travel less but better, slowly and enjoying deeply every moment.
That’s why I feel that Wilderness is not a right, it’s a sacred gift, donated to us for free. We just have to love and protect it.
Exploring Wilderness
1. be open: it’s where humanity was born, even if we now forgot it.
2. be slow: technocracy make us fast, in moving and in thinking. But it’s in the space between that Wilderness penetrates us.
3. be silent: Wilderness has its own sounds, including a powerful silence, listen, always.
4. be present yourself: enjoy every single moment, it’s a gift.
5. be self sufficient: don’t hire porters, cooks, use as less help as possible. Sleep in a tent you brought on your shoulders. The experience will be more authentic and immersive.
6. limit yourself: if the destination is too far or too hard to get with your own strength, change destination.
7. preserve it: be part of a movement that aim to preserve Wilderness integrity. We need Wilderness, Wilderness don’t need us to be in it.
8. do not leave traces: to preserve Wilderness, and to leave it clean for who is coming after you.
9. do not change it: we have no right to change Wilderness to make it more human friendly. The only actions we are allowed to do on Wilderness are those made to preserve it.
10. do not cheat: your destination is too far or too hard? Change the destination, Wilderness is all around us. Cheating getting the top is cheating yourself, missing a unique occasion.
And at the end, enjoy, celebrate, enjoy: you are entering a holy reign that’s have been here since the dawn of time, be happy and thankful, celebrate its beauty.
Photographing Wilderness
In a society that disconnects from Earth, I decide to narrate the Wilderness and the connection I feel with it. My goal is to inspire exploring it responsibly, feeling instead of consuming.
My personal narration starts from photography, as there I find a connection between soul and wilderness.
Exploration allows me to oscillate between mountain landscapes and emotional scenery, the photography to narrate feelings I have in them. Facing up with this awareness, a photographic realism has lost its importance completely: I am interested in conveying my emotional vision of that place in that single moment.
I explore, and narrate, both in digital and in film. Of the first I love the total creative freedom that leaves a possibility to bring the perfection of Wilderness closer. Of the (photographic) film, I love the other side: with its grain, the surreal colors, scratches and grains of dust, it can reflect that vague and emotional vision that I have when I immerse myself into the wilderness.
I recently started taking some videos too, as I love the possibility to narrate the moving Wilderness.