THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
THE PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTED IN THIS SITE TELL US ABOUT A MORE OR LESS RECENT PAST RELATED TO SOME OF THE PLACES OF THE VALLEYS STURA, GRANA, AND MAIRA.
COLLECT
This photographic archive has a precise aim: to collect memories and connect them to the future, because the memory of a territory belongs to the public and is the very proper identity of a community.
HANDING DOWN
These images hand down a memory the worth of which has already become a collective patrimony. Thanks to this, we can try a visual reconstruction – certainly within the limits of the many difficulties collecting the material – of the past of three adjoining valleys (deeply connected by stories, traditions, language, and costumes).
OFFER
Offering these photographs to the public is a first step to revive the complex mosaic of the collective memory of these ‘high lands’. It happens right in an era when, with thousands of obstacles, the alpine villages – not only in the Cuneo area – are experiencing for some time now a budding ‘rediscovery’ by those who decide to go (or to stay) there to live and work.