Houses

Shroma Cultural Centre

Today we travel to the Guria region, to the village of Shroma. It is here that one of the most luxurious meeting rooms in Georgia is hidden in an annexe of the school building. Inside, the décor is realistic, with paintings depicting ‘Gurians’ in their national dress celebrating the harvest. Above the stage, a bas-relief […]

August 23, 2023
Beria’s dacha

Houses were built in the 1930s and the first orphanage in the area was opened in 1926. Primarily children who had been left without parents following the August uprising of 1924 lived there. In the years that followed, famous writers and artists often visited the orphanage. Soviet Period During the Soviet period, all buildings in […]

August 20, 2023
The Tractor Depot

A villa lost in the countryside and a darkroom…

November 20, 2021
The forgotten artist

Strange creatures wake up at night, crawling in the dark and turning their pleading eyes to the sky.

May 23, 2021
A puzzle to shape

The mountain between alienation, abandonment and depopulation…

April 19, 2021
The bride’s home

Tears enveloped the tender face of the bride in white as she abandoned the altar of roses and her pile of robes to the ravages of time.

December 20, 2020
Tattoo Artist’s House

Tattooing as an eternal artistic product and the tattoo artist the ephemeral part.

September 27, 2020
House of the Muslim

A division between the sacred (the abandoned place) and the profane (the society). Only certain individuals, endowed with a certain knowledge and therefore charged with a certain energy, can cross this threshold.

September 15, 2020
Typical Assamese House

Wandering around Guwahati, and walking along the shore of one of the largest rivers in Asia, to my surprise I happen near a temple that at first sight seems very special and completely non-touristy.

November 6, 2019
Abandoned Trulli

Here we are back in Italy, trying to catch last summer days, eating Focaccia, and drinking vine all days long. This time we will go south and visit the region of Puglia and its famous traditional houses called “trulli”.

September 17, 2019