The research was conducted over a period of five years at the lights of the geophysical entity of Mont Blanc: a kaleidoscopic territory, an environmental and historic heritage for Italy, France and Switzerland. It is a 360 degree journey into the language of the “large format” of black and white chemical analogue photography. For this purpose, several 20x25 cm and 30x40 cm optical bench cameras were designed, built and employed, in order to fit into the technical-expressive conditions appropriate to read and observe the Mont Blanc spaces, lights and events and, as a result, to perceive the echo of the varied contemporary existential dimensions.
The corpus of about one hundred silver halide crystal film base sheets realised during the photographic campaign represents the visual synthesis of the many journeys made by the author both in the physical spaces, part of the history of mountaineering and exploration, and in the fields of the cultural, natural and tourist history of the area, together with the studies on the historic and contemporary iconographic production. A five-year-long path full of personal and historical events; a journey around new visual habits in which the Mont Blanc was dismantled and recomposed for a different, necessary look.