Strada Provinciale della Principessa is a photographic exploration investigating the Maremma area between Lazio and Tuscany along the via Aurelia, one of the most ancient main road in Italy. 

The body of this long work stems from an interest in some sort of landscape that accompanies Lorenzo from his photographic beginnings and a strong personal need, from a childhood fascination for unseen and perhaps underrated countryside scenarios. Starting the photographic path along the Via Aurelia, the project name is a sort of a synecdoche (partly made to represent the whole): Lorenzo intentionally chooses a fascinating local road name (it is his family road in the countryside), to actually keep the project much closer to his imaginary. 
In fact, the series aims at focusing its attention on that kind of landscape, la provincia, which is a very distinctive topic of the center Italian cities’ outskirts. Using a medium format camera, Strada Provinciale della Principessa’s images are very much about waiting, dialogue, confrontation, trying to create a rich palimpsest of signs in the Maremma landscape built from centuries of residential, agricultural, industrial, thermal, and commercial activity. At first sight, it seems that this kind of traditional landscape is stuck to be an apology of some kind the 80s-90s Italian landscape; however, this kind of aesthetic has broken due to the upcoming new contemporary interventions (such as the new infrastructures and roads on the via Aurelia, at the border of Lazio and Tuscany or the multiple residential houses have been built). In this sense, the project is led mainly by via Aurelia and the Maremma, which are two crucial iconic areas of central Italy. 

Establishing a connection over time, as a kind of long-term dialogue from which a strongly interior vision of landscapes and architectures features, Lorenzo Zandri alternates these two moments of contrast: photographing everyday landscapes is a way to acknowledge the importance of the vernacular, but also to break free from the stereotypes and ideas around this landscape. In these terms, the photo series aims at giving a glimpse of this sentimental geography Lorenzo has experienced. 

In Strada Provinciale della Principessa, Lorenzo also investigates the hinterland areas of the Maremma aiming at keeping track of both natural and historical sources and narratives from the indirect connection from stories to places, society to history, reality to imagination.