Cesare Marrocco, Cesacastina (Abruzzo)
Pastoral cultures across the world share gestures, sounds, and rhythms that are strikingly alike — and a similar fate: to vanish within a generation. This project follows that thread from Patagonia to Sardinia, Abruzzo, Morocco, the Caucasus and Central Asia, in photographs and first-person writing. It began with a smell: a sheep carcass hanging from a branch in a Mapuche settlement — the smell of my grandfather's stable, of where shepherds have lived and worked for millennia, in contact with the same blood, the same milk, under different skies.
Steven Okono, Oschiri (Sardegna) - Salvatore Denule, Oschiri (Sardegna) - Nunzio Marcelli, Anversa degli Abruzzi (Abruzzo)
Silvia Meloni, Berchidda (Sardegna)
Ercole Di Girolami, Campotosto (Abruzzo)
Sheep grazing on the Monti della Laga (Abruzzo)
This is an ongoing long-term project. The Italian chapter (Sardinia and Abruzzo) is complete. Morocco is in production for October 2026. For editorial collaboration, exhibition, or further inquiry: francesco@francescodibene.com