In 2007 i started documenting the evidences left by mining exploitation in Sardinia, the island where i live. Abandoned buildings, deep shafts, dumps and several galleries are just a few keys of a new transformed landscape. Those signs changed the territory’s identity and today our land is full of those elements. For me landscape photography is accepting the evidences of the land-use change. Sardinia was all pastoralism and agriculture in 1800, ok, but it has changed now. For more than 70 years the island got exploited by many mining companies and those activities changed a lot the land that people were used to see. Then mining companies left and what is in front of our faces today is a no man’s land, made of cut mountains, big holes in the ground, polluted areas and thousands of galleries under the surface. When I started this long-term project I had to become speleologist in order to access those remote places. Sometimes you have to go down in deep shafts using ropes to reach the underground. As you can imagine the core of a mine is under the surface, hundreds of meters below and moving in those places can be very dangerous so you have to carefully study in order to reduce the risks. Nowadays people don’t accept those changes, everyone talks about the damned companies that left Sardinia without job and many people speak only about negative consequences like pollution. I think that it’s time to understand that the land is not coming back like it was and it’s only up to us changing our perspective and start thinking positive in terms of acceptance, heritage, preservation and change of intended use. My aim is to create a free available digital archive with images from all Sardinian mines so young and future generations can see what their grandfathers did many years before. I hope that this can help people to become aware of their land and its potentials. Memory is so important too, it's the identity of a community, we cannot lose it.