The research I started years ago was born from the need to understand why the man was so insensitive to the safety of the land that hosts him. Understanding the relationship that man has established with nature, and also vice versa. The Treccani Encyclopedia defines the landscape as follows: “Part of the territory that is embraced with the gaze from a determined point. The term is used in particular with reference to landscapes characteristic for their natural beauty […] ”. In fact, however, today the environment is highly anthropized, and modern and contemporary man, even when he withdraws from a place, here leaves the mark of his passage, in the form of poor and sometimes alienating as well as incomprehensible artifacts. Yet here the paradox arises: what we see we like, maybe it makes us angry but reassures us, perhaps we could not imagine otherwise: taking the same natural "fragment" and trying to imagine it without the artifact, it would probably downgrade it to "not very interesting, already seen, bucolic, etc.". If all this has an aesthetic, the photographic representation becomes an aesthetic of aesthetics, in an anesthetizing short circuit that makes the disfigurement "natural". Landscape photography understood in this way, certifies this process, and at the same time legitimizes it. "A macchia di leopardo" is the title of my photographic book, published in September 2020 by Editrice Quinlan and with a text by Sabrina Ragucci.