Marco Paoli: Hallelujah Toscana

Marco Paoli travelled through Tuscany as if it were the last strange and wild land to discover. The pictures of Hallelujah Toscana tell a different, magical and mysterious region, in any case a land never seen before. The charm that those places can take on whom who look at them is increased by the choice of black and white and by the relationship between the author and the texts that contribute to the visual storytelling as a sort of choral counter melody.The poems by Alba Donati, president of the Scientific and Literary Cabinet G.P. Vieusseux, become actual descents into the heart and history of gardens, of houses, of open or enclosed spaces, while the telling of the Pulitzer Prize Michael Cunningham, that fits in as a third voice, immerse us in a set of different places, romantic or painful, left to their own or treated as by heavenly gardeners, fascinating or simply alive, from time

Marco Paoli was born in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa, in Tuscany, in 1959. He lives and works in Florence.

Among his projects and photographic works: Amazonlife Project, the Busajo project documentation in Soddo, Ethiopia, to support street children. He published the books Ballads, Silence, and Ethiopia (Giunti editore).