BERTHET-AITTOUARES

" In the heart of Puglia, during the winter of 2011,

I went to meet the thousand-year-old inhabitants of this arid countryside in southern Italy. They were my hosts, Ottavio, Gino, Cosimo and the others, as these men who take care of them from generation to generation call them. I waited until nightfall to photograph them, when all the color of the landscape fades, and the olive trees are entirely adorned with silver tones, revealing their mineral forms.

- Antoine Schneck