THE WASTE LAND BLUES

This is the story of a dark journey through emotional landscapes shaped by deep and ancestral forces of nature. Pure wilderness, with just few traces of humanity here and there. Snow, black sand and volcanic ash blowing in the stormy wind through never ending horizons and cloudy skies. A remote and astonishing nature that gradually from the exterior comes to the interior - and the landscape becomes one with the soul. A metaphysical and barren ambient that is a mirror of our fears and dreams, of death and life, of our world and our existence. This is a journey into ourselves. These images represent Mýrdalssandur and Eldhraun, South Iceland. “The waste land blues” 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.