Following water tracks on the routes of the desert.
In the popular imagination the desert is seen as a boundless space, arid and lifeless. The reality is completely different.
In the desert there is more life than it could be expected, expecially in certain areas were rocks and creeks trap water.
The desert is by itself a living organism, perfect, sacred, timeless.
During one of the most significative experience of my life, I run behind a caravan of camels moving towars water in one of the "routes of the desert".
A hard journey, sometimes many days long, just to let those animals survive in an incredibly hostile land. The traces of water were more and more evident while we were reaching our destination...and emotions grew at the same time.
The following pictures belongs to a work in progress reportage "on water tracks along the desert routes".
Tassili n'Ajjer, Sahara Desert, Algeria.
My origins drive me back to Borgia (Italy), a hill town which looks on to the Ionian sea.
In year 2005 I bought my first Reflex Camera.
In year 2007 after the Degree in Political Science at Universita' di Pisa I moved to Luxembourg, where I had the opportunity to attend some photographic courses held by CIEL (Club Photo des Institutions Europeennes a' Luxembourg).
Since 2009 I have been living in Paris where I attended the photographic specialization courses at the "Centre Jean Verdier - Departement Photographie".
CONTESTS: PX3 2011: PX3 Official Selection; REFLEX WINNER 2011: 1st PRIZE.
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