Non è un addio (It’s not a goodbye) is an intimate letter where images take the place of words and born from a personal need to search for connection with my land. During 2021 I suffered a heavy burnout at work: the stress and pressures of the advertising world had exhausted my nervous energies and, for the sake of my person, after four years, I decided to leave the job; but above all, I decided to leave the city where I had lived: Rome. So I returned to the territory that has seen me grow and to which, indissolubly, I will always be linked, almost morbically: Florence. The approach with the return to those spaces is traumatic: I no longer recognize what I had left and attribute this sense of alienation to the problems that afflict the city at this time: recovery from Covid, overtourism, gentrification etc... I start to retrace, almost obsessively, those places that I remembered different, or that I perceived different, shooting what I feel I have to immortalize. The further I go, the more I realize that this practice becomes therapeutic and I begin to understand that, perhaps, it is the perception of a space that makes it actually different; and that the real change has occurred inside me. The project then begins to take on body and meaning, making me understand that what I am doing is actually an introspective research on how I relate to the places where I live and to which I attach. Over time, an intimate story is created, a visual letter that also wants to be a declaration of intent towards me and my land: in any case, it is never a goodbye.