One could perhaps too easily note how Italian roads are very different from American highways and do not really allow for speeding as perhaps Baudrillard intended. However, it may be more significant to reflect on the fact that only one photograph in this sequence was really taken on the road, stopping the car, during the journey. All the other photographs are, instead, the result of slowing down, of pauses and blind digressions in the journey, in which we parked the car and walked.
This probably says something about our attitude as photographers, something about the Italian landscape compared to North America and, ultimately, about the journey, which today has perhaps concluded its mythological parable.

BASILICATA, CALABRIA, SICILY, 2022
An instant book made during a trip between Maratea and Favara.

All photographs were taken between May 27th-29th 2022 by Marco Battezzati, Luigi Chiapolino, Tommaso Mola Meregalli and Giuliano Vaccai.