Sopra una perduta estate

Sopra una perduta estate is the title of a sparse booklet by writer and poet Francesco Leonetti. Published in 1942, it originally consisted of just 12 poems—simple verses in which the urgency of love turns into the melancholy of what has been lost.This photographic project moves along that same simplicity and urgency; sometimes closely aligned with the poet's verses, sometimes more distant, but always in harmony. These are photographs clinging to the theme of memory, of the melancholic recollection of what once was and is now irretrievably gone. Memories lived not with desperate nostalgia, but with the resigned awareness that the flower that blooms today will wither tomorrow.