{"id":726,"date":"2019-10-25T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/website\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:33:59","slug":"langhe-roero-e-monferrato","status":"publish","type":"reportages","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/","title":{"rendered":"Langhe, Roero e Monferrato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Farmers working the land, the grape harvest, the smell of must, churches, castles, vineyards, traditional trattorias and Michelin-starred restaurants, apiaries and luxury resorts. Everything in Piedmont seems somehow to be the product of a curation<\/em> of the region\u2019s past – a process in which memory is a motor that works tirelessly, preserving some traditions and transforming others into little outposts of modernity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piedmont itself is\na place of memory. The sea that once occupied the region, thousands of years\nago; is evoked by the sandstone that men and women of the Monferrato have hollowed\nout to create the infern\u00f2t<\/em>, cellars\nused to store and preserve cured meats, wine and cheese and as a meeting place for\nthe evenings. The regional preserves a memory of its customs and practices, too\n– the ingenuity and creativity of its wine makers; the fields, contoured, ploughed,\nsown and cultivated with great craft; the ciab\u00f2t<\/em>\nof the Langhe (the small shelters used by vineyard workers); the regional cooking\ntraditions. Finally, there is a remembrance of harrowing events from the past, stories\nof violence – narrated with great sincerity by the writer Beppe Fenoglio,\nauthor of Il Partigiano Johnny<\/em> – which seem to tinge the rough enthusiasm\nof the inhabitants of the Basso Piemonte<\/em> with a touch of melancholy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been coming back to these places since 2015 \u2013 concentrating in particular on the Langhe, Roero and Monferrato. On my visits, my aim has been to apply a discreet and yet meticulous approach, both personally and as a photographer. This has allowed me to uncover the countryside\u2019s hidden rhythms – whose innate harmony emerges only with time – and to capture the music that hangs, as if suspended, among the hillslopes and hilltops, as the tractors wind their way up and down the long rows of vines. As I slowly got to know the towns, their faces and customs, I was struck by an impression of renewed vigour and began to understand precisely why this area \u2013 with all its internal differences (e.g. the Langhe smarter and more orderly, Monferrato more genuine, yet to be deformed by monoculture farming) is today among the world heritage sites recognised by Unesco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided what I wanted to do was to represent these people and the one activity that links them more than any other to their territory: their work. Depicting this aspect is no easy task, requiring time: after all, the stories of Piedmont are slow burners, not headline news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via. Un paese vuol dire non essere soli, sapere che nella gente, nelle piante, nella terra c’\u00e8 qualcosa di tuo, che anche quando non ci sei resta ad aspettarti<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One needs a town, if only for the pleasure of leaving\nit. <\/em>A town means not being alone,\nknowing that in the people, the trees,\nthe soil, there is something of yourself, that even when you’re not there it\nstays and waits.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cesare Pavese, La luna e i fal\u00f2<\/em>, 1950 (The Moon and the Bonfires)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-726","reportages","type-reportages","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nLanghe, Roero e Monferrato - Nicola Sacco<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Langhe, Roero e Monferrato - Nicola Sacco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farmers working the land, the grape harvest, the smell of must, churches, castles, vineyards, traditional trattorias and Michelin-starred restaurants, apiaries and luxury resorts. Everything in Piedmont seems somehow to be the product of a curation of the region\u2019s past – a process in which memory is a motor that works tirelessly, preserving some traditions and […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nicola Sacco\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-06T14:33:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Nicola Sacco\",\"description\":\"Photography\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/\",\"name\":\"Langhe, Roero e Monferrato - Nicola Sacco\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-25T08:48:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-03-06T14:33:59+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/reportages\/langhe-roero-e-monferrato\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reportages\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reportages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reportages"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolasacco.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}