HYBRIDATIONS Photographic reconnaissance of inland areas in the province of Salerno What is left of our countries? Of those territories far from the dynamics of economic/social development of large urban areas, far from the destinations of mass tourism, far from the coast. This little journey through images in the southern province of Salerno does not pretend to answer the question posed at the beginning of this text. If anything, it is an attempt to understand the landscape, to implement a form of critical observation of my surroundings using my camera, to create a photographic archive of these places and in a subsequent phase, to select and create a coherent series of photographs that reflect my movement within this territory. As with my previous work on the sites of the 1980 earthquake (DEL SILENZIO E DI ALTRI SGUARDI, fotografie dai luoghi del terremoto del 1980, by Pio Peruzzini and Gaetano Paraggio - published in 2020 with the contribution of the Consiglio Regionale della Campania), I have moved towards research into the urban, looking for man in the places he inhabits, in the built environment, in the superimposition of the natural root of the landscape. Unlike a reconstructed area, such as that of the crater of the 1980 earthquake, here we still have the integrity of the villages, to which however there is no real conservation of the historic centres. Depopulation contributes to the progressive loss of identity, and architectural superimpositions create hybrid urban spaces in which historical buildings and palaces coexist with others built in more recent times. The result is an unharmonious landscape, full of spontaneous contrasts and at times disused. The area chosen for this work on inland areas falls within the Cilento Vallo del Diano and Alburni National Park. It is a work in progress, which continues at a rather slow pace, I like to let things mature, I don't give myself a deadline, I photograph throughout the seasons in different weather conditions and light. These fifteen photographs are therefore already part of a wider selection that will be completed in the coming years. Harmony is hidden, beauty is veiled, covered by a patina of resignation and sometimes neglect, but this does not conceal it definitively. There is a desire not to think that all is lost, that there still remains a light of hope and rebirth. At least that.