An ongoing meditation on house and belonging by London-based photographer Marco Marinucci. Initially from Pescara, Italy, Marinucci’s work explores themes of identification, migration, and familial roots. His images replicate a profound connection to the landscapes and traditions which have formed his life. Since emigrating to London, Marco has been navigating the complexities of dwelling between two worlds, capturing the quiet rhythms of his hometown whereas considering the continuing query of belonging. In “At any time when I am going again,” Marinucci paperwork the realm in and round San Giovanni Teatino, a small Italian city nestled between the Adriatic Sea and the Apennine Mountains:
“I really feel an awesome urge to seize and carry with me the essence of house, each spiritually and bodily, by way of my images. It’s like I’m attempting to protect fragments of my identification. Nonetheless, these pictures are greater than that; they’re an try to hold with me the love, values, and traditions which were handed down by way of generations. It’s like every {photograph} is a thread linking me again to my household, permitting me to carry on to the sense of belonging that has at all times been fundament to my life. There’s a saying in Italy that the household is the middle of life, and for me, that has at all times been true. It is just because of this distance that I understood this must {photograph} every time I am going again..”
