«There is nothing here. This is a sentence I heard thousands of times, as if I had contacted a voicemail instead of actual people.»

It is perhaps in this passage from the writer Franco Armino’s “Vocabolario Appenninico” (Apennine Vocabulary) that the ultimate meaning of Simone Donati’s new work is concealed.

Donati is a Tuscan photographer known above all for being one of the founders of the TerraProject collective, which has been stubbornly active for years in Italy and around the world with projects of wide–ranging and welcome depth.