AFFERMATI is a personal photographic project that explores memory, identity, and belonging through family archives and everyday landscapes.
This is the 2° volume of a three series. Rooted in Sicily and developed over time, the project reflects on origins as something both intimate and stratified, shaped by people, places, materials, and the passage of time.
Through a dialogue between archival images and contemporary photographs, Affermati investigates how personal history is preserved, transformed, and reinterpreted. Domestic scenes, childhood memories, architectural details, natural elements, and traces of daily life are treated as visual fragments that build a quiet, layered narrative.
The project moves between the private and the collective, questioning how memory becomes material and how identity is constructed through repetition, absence, and continuity.
Structured as an editorial object, Affermati is divided into thematic sections: Roots, Concrete Material, Life, and Time each representing a different layer of permanence and change.
Photography becomes both a documentary and reflective tool, allowing the past to surface through subtle gestures and familiar textures. The project does not aim to fix memory, but to affirm it as something living, fragile, and constantly evolving.
