giuseppe sannino- to you, my sweetest memory forgotten
To You, My Sweetest Memory Forgotten is a photographic project made in Picinisco, a mountain village in southern Italy where my family originate. The work unfolds within a landscape shaped by repetition: seasons, labour and weather. Here, life is organised around gestures that are learned early and repeated, carried from one generation to the next.
The photographs centre on local sheep herders and villagers, men whose bodies move in close continuity with the land. Their actions are simple and precise, shaped by necessity rather than expression. Speech is scarce and meaning resides in posture, rhythm, in the weight of bodies against wind, stone and animals.
In this space, closeness is not expressed but endured, carried forward through silence and by being present.
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Giuseppe Sannino is a photographer based in Genoa, Italy. His work explores memory, belonging and place, using photography to investigate the uncertain relationship between ourselves and the landscapes we inhabit.