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Exhibition

2025

Festival della Fotografia Italiana
Su nella valle

Simone Donati

Exhibition

2025

Festival della Fotografia Italiana
Su nella valle

Su nella valle

Vall’Olmo, January 2025

“Su nella valle” (“Up in the valley”) is the second chapter of the long-term work that Simone Donati is carrying out in the Casentino area. After exploring the urban areas of Bibbiena, Poppi, and Pratovecchio Stia, with a slow and attentive gaze turned to marginal and little-visited places, Donati now shifts his focus to the upper valley: mountain areas, small villages, and remote hamlets, where silent everyday life reveals deep roots, quiet resistance, and stories far from postcard clichés.
The work, commissioned by the Festival della Fotografia Italiana, tell the story of these places and the community of people who live there: lumberjacks who work the woods with skill and precise gestures, farmers who live their relationship with animals with passion and effort, families who pass down traditions and knowledge, elderly custodians of memory and young people who choose to stay or return, opposing the slow emptying of the internal areas. There is no shortage of small shops, true strongholds of sociality and identity, which tenaciously resist the standardization of the present. The photographic process was, this time too, slow and exploratory: an immersive practice, attentive to the details and nuances of the territory. The spectacular image was not sought, but rather a form of visual listening, capable of restoring the sense of everyday life, of the habits and simple gestures that make up mountain life. A work that aims to be a testimony, but also a reflection on the value of the small communities and human landscapes that inhabit the depths of Italy.

Su nella valle

Tommaso, Pratovecchio, April 2025

Su nella valle

Moggiona, April 2025

Su nella valle

Miranda, Calcinaia, February 2025

Su nella valle

Badia Prataglia, December 2024

Su nella valle

Alessandro, Calcinaia, April 2025

Su nella valle

Barbara, Camaldoli, March 2025

Su nella valle

Valagnesi, February 2025

Su nella valle

Roberto, Moggiona, April 2025

Su nella valle

Francesco, Casalino, April 2025

Su nella valle

Moggiona, April 2025

Su nella valle

Quota, February 2025

Su nella valle

Lucia, Lonnano, February 2025

Su nella valle

Gualdo, February 2025

Su nella valle

Serravalle, January 2025

Su nella valle

Badia Prataglia, January 2025

Su nella valle

Mirko, Valle dell’Oia, April 2025

Su nella valle

Alberto, Badia Prataglia, March 2025

Su nella valle

Banzena, February 2025

Su nella valle

Badia Prataglia, December 2024

Su nella valle

Natasha, Badia Prataglia, April 2025

Su nella valle

Don Francesco, Lonnano, February 2025

Su nella valle

Casalino, January 2025

Exhibition

Su nella valle
Su nella valle
Su nella valle
Su nella valle
Su nella valle

Su nella valle on display at Galleria Mariæ Nivis, Pratovecchio, June 14th – September 21st, 2025

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