Sailors, dock workers, ships and vessels. The sea as memory, fate and material. A new epic, in the present.

“The sea has always been a place where people measure themselves against beauty and time. Every ship that crosses it carries a story, a character, a soul: it is far more than a vehicle, it is a living being, a witness to the journey and to the hands that built it.”

“The sea has always guarded myths and legends, real and imaginary routes. Galleons, caravels and great vessels have crossed centuries carrying dreams of conquest, freedom and destiny. With this project we want to bring that aura into the present, portraying ships and crews as protagonists of a new epic: figures suspended between the strength of iron and the fragility of time.”

“Through historic photographic techniques, such as wet plate collodion, and infrared views that reveal what usually remains invisible, we try to turn each vessel into a timeless work. Every hull, every face, every surface becomes a trace of light, an echo of the great sea stories that still accompany us.”

“From Odysseus to captains’ logs, from pirate legends to Turner’s romantic visions. Ships are not only instruments of navigation: they are symbolic creatures, keepers of memories and destinies. In our work they become monuments of light, fixed in an instant that knows neither corrosion nor oblivion.”