The photographs in this project were made along the gravel riverbeds that surround the island of Papadopoli, the largest river island in Italy, formed after a flood of the Piave in the late 1800s. It is a landscape shaped by water, time, and absence. Known in Italian as le grave (the gravels), the word carries a resonance that echoes both the material reality of the terrain and its historical weight, marked by violence and death in the final stages of the First World War.
 

The landscape appears fragile and stripped to its essentials: stones, water, and ragged vegetation. In winter there is a certain atmosphere here — a quiet tension between desolation and beauty.

I will return in the summer to photograph again.