Annachiara Maffezzoli

This project is a travel book collection based on photographs captured during some of the most impactful journeys I had through the years. With these publications, I wanted to convey a genuine point of view of what my experiences were and extract from my own family photo archive a story of people, colors, and places. My passion for traveling was transmitted by my family since I was young: my parents have always encouraged me to approach a new country with an open mind, to warmly talk to local people, and try local food fearlessly in order to understand the culture and the country we were visiting. These attitudes are a demonstration of respect and also a meeting point between the background you come from and the immersive experience of traveling, which makes us realize what a small space we occupy in this big world (as Flaubert says). My publications also question the overwhelmed way of archiving photos scrolling through our phone's galleries and propose a smooth collection of unforgettable experiences told by the power of photography mixed with bold, colorful, and essential type to showcase adventures and memories lived in Kenya, Africa (2013) and La Havana, Cuba (2015).