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Wanderer: Men and wilderness
Do wilderness still exist nowadays? And if it ever survive, where to find it? After having fantasized since childhood on wild places of cinema and literature - limitless, isolated, elementary, splendid and ferocious places, following their own laws and rhythms, regardless of human presence - Niccolò Aiazzi became a passionate mountaineer, photographer and video-maker, undertaking a series of expeditions in Africa, in the United States, in Latin America, in New Zealand, but also in Europe and Italy. Drawing inspiration from the great masters of art and literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the great "story-tellers" of the enchantment of nature (among others, Friedrick, Segantini, Tolstoy, Jack London, Hemingway, Krakauer), Niccolò Aiazzi tried to follow a personal and profound photographic itinerary, in territories made of ice, stone, wood, water and snow, which he discovered extraordinarily alive, unknown and full of poetry. Through the lens of his camera, Niccolò Aiazzi tracked a map - from California to Kilimanjaro, from the Caucasus to the Alps - which represents also an existential path. Because every single aspect of these places reveals secret correspondences between outward appearance and inner spaces, between the soul of the world and the world of the soul. He found out that wild nature rests on the extreme peaks of remote mountains as in the forgotten woods right at cities' edges. It is a complex and sometimes terrible kingdom, where mankind is a guest who should enter "on tiptoe", fearful and deferent. And yet man is inextricably linked and irremediably attracted to it.
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