To You, My Sweetest Memory Forgotten
by Giuseppe Sannino
portfolio special mention call 'Urbanautica Institute Awards 2025', 2025
Category: Anthropology and Territories
To You, My Sweetest Memory Forgotten is a photographic project made in Picinisco, a mountain village in southern Italy where my family originates. The work unfolds within a landscape shaped by repetition: seasons, labor, and weather. Life here is organised around gestures learned early and carried from one generation to the next.
The photographs focus on local sheep herders and villagers, men whose bodies move in close continuity with the land. Their actions are simple, precise, and guided by necessity rather than expression. Speech is scarce. Meaning resides in rhythm, stone, and the relationships between humans and animals.
In this space, the closeness to nature is unmistakable, expressed through the villagers’ profound connection to the land and the cyclical patterns of daily life.