Puglia through the lens

Puglia has long been one of the most beloved Italian regions for photographers, architects and scholars, both Italian and international. Its visual power – made of light, stone, open horizons and rural Mediterranean architecture – has generated an extraordinary iconographic heritage. Numerous photobooks and research projects bear witness to how this territory has welcomed the gaze of great masters of photography, capable of capturing its vitality through fresh and profoundly contemporary visual perspectives.

The Murgia dei Trulli as a meeting point between timeless architecture and human-shaped landscape. Rural constructions – trulli, masserie, jazzi, dry stone walls – become keys to understanding a Mediterranean world made of ancient gestures, skilled building techniques and a harmonious relationship between man and nature.

The talk will also highlight the romantic-evocative and spiritual dimension of the Apulian landscape between the 19th and 20th centuries, through the photographic gaze and travel accounts of artists, poets, geographers and especially architects. A journey that shows how Puglia has been, and continues to be, a laboratory of imagination, a place capable of inspiring narratives, visions and projects.