TO FACE

Publisher: STEIDL, 2012
Language: English

​Photography: Paola De Pietri
Text: Roberta Valtorta, Mario Rigoni Stern

Paola De Pietri first learnt of World War I at school and from family members who recounted historical facts through personal experiences – experiences that are in danger of being forgotten. In To Face De Pietri preserves these memories in a series of photographs of the alps between Italy and Austria, a landscape that still bears the scars of trench warfare from nearly a century ago. De Pietri’s subtle, unassuming images show a landscape once damaged by man is now being reclaimed by nature.