The Silent Heaven

The Silent Heaven is the exciting story of the life on the hill of the guard park of the National Park of Gran Paradiso Claudia Linti and Martino Nicolino and their tireless work of protection and conservation of the territory.
It is a series, a collection of photographs that seem to swallow the reader inside with a loud and melancholy narrative. In this work, the photographer wanted to document long weeks of loneliness, tiring walks, and busy days of events. A story of two people who never cross each other, whose narrative is intertwined with those of the species that inhabit the park.
Witnesses of how man and nature can live in total symbiosis, through a relationship of interdependence.
The series is more a circular journey than a story with a beginning and an end. The world erected by the author is made of people and places frozen in time, opposed to the infinite movement of the flow of time and the animals that inhabit it.
The Gran Paradiso is situated between Piemonte and the Aosta Valley. In 1922 there was established a park, the oldest in Italy.
The symbolic animal is the ibex, an ungulate that has been the subject of indiscriminate hunting for centuries, during fascism. With the creation of the park, the mountainous valley has found a new balance and its species have re-populated, mainly thanks to the commitment of the guard parks.