THE OLD CABIN BY THE FROZEN WATER

“The old cabin by the frozen water” is a story of a mistery around a little old cabin. What secrets are kept in its wooden wall? Who lived here? What happened by the water? Maybe something scary? Will someone live here again? We all grow old, carriyng with us memories from our childhood, with whom we shape our personality and construct our behaviour, our story, our relations. Looking at this cabin, I imagined adult people who comes back again, maybe for the last time, to see the place of their childhood, with all their happy and sad memories. Travelling to the old cabin is travelling through memories, fears, desires, dreams. One caption is a verse from The Betrothed, by Alessandro Manzoni. Images represent Vestvågøy and Flakstadøya, Lofoten Island, Norway. “The old cabin by the frozen water” is one of the stories from the main project “Stories From Planet Earth”. On one side, it's a lyric dedicated to the beauty of the world and to travelling, losing and finding ourselves in the embrace of the wild, mainly in the North. On the other side, it's a testament to the environment, that, due to several factors, is rapidly modifying its peculiar characteristics. Travelling can of course be a general metaphor of managing changes, that nowadays are occuring in the world at multiple levels: ecology, society, health, safety, history, economy, up to our psychological and personal level. The whole project starts from landscape and travel photography, but it moves to a more intimate dimension of visual storytelling in which images, words, emotions, are all in one, in order to generate both rational thoughts and little poetical suggestions in everyone of us. We live our existence among transitions bigger than us. And we can look, think, act with respect, responsability and awareness of ourselves and our world.