BEHIND THE SHOT
— The stories behind locations and shooting —
- THE SILENT TIMEKEEPERS-
PIEMONTE
2017

THE SILENT TIMEKEEPERS
PIEMONTE
2017
This palace is part of the ten palaces to which I am most fond for majesty, it was my first noble palace to be explored, so I always keep a pleasant memory.
The origins of this palace are lost at the end of the seventeenth century, we are in Piedmont, the Italian region home of the Savoy, the royal family that has dominated the Italian north west for many centuries.
In ancient times this palace was built as a summer mansion away from the big city which it leaned, also allowed its occupants to remain isolated from the Uban centers during the various epidemics that plagued that period.
Its construction is linked to an attempt by its owner to bring his son to the princess who lived in a nearby palace. He hoped, with this closeness, to create a bond with the royal family of the princess.
I am so fond of this building that over the years I have returned many times to be able to photograph the rooms with different light temperatures, with the change of seasonal light and the hours of the day. I often come back to a place, but in this I will be back 6-7 times.
This shot was taken on my second return to this building. In fact during my first exploration the windows on the left were completely closed and the room was definitely darker. Vandals, over the years, have devastated the ancient shutters by powerfully entering the light in the forgotten hall.
Unfortunately over the years this building has been vandalized enormously because the place has been spread, I had the good fortune to photograph it before the damage of vandals were very obvious. The armchair in the photo was the protagonist of many of my shots before it was brutally incinerated.
Many doors and windows facing the outside have been walled, prohibiting the light from filtering into the rooms and illuminating the decorations.
This is an example of spreading the name of the location that leads to the unraveling of the same. A palace that remained “unharmed” for hundreds of years has suffered an exponential ruin within a few years, without the guilt of time.
The sensationalism of the discovery and the consequent fashion grown on youtube of this kind of explorations, inevitably lead to the ruin of the places, because of individuals without ethics that minimize the respect.
Recently an arson has burned all the rooms of the top floor, greatly accelerating the death of this majestic palace.
Under some shots of the other rooms, the most interesting are the main stairs, with wrought iron handrails, the reception hall on the ground floor with its beautiful arched ceiling supported by several columns, and some secondary rooms.
This palace is part of the ten palaces to which I am most fond for majesty, it was my first noble palace to be explored, so I always keep a pleasant memory.
The origins of this palace are lost at the end of the seventeenth century, we are in Piedmont, the Italian region home of the Savoy, the royal family that has dominated the Italian north west for many centuries.
In ancient times this palace was built as a summer mansion away from the big city which it leaned, also allowed its occupants to remain isolated from the Uban centers during the various epidemics that plagued that period.
Its construction is linked to an attempt by its owner to bring his son to the princess who lived in a nearby palace. He hoped, with this closeness, to create a bond with the royal family of the princess.
I am so fond of this building that over the years I have returned many times to be able to photograph the rooms with different light temperatures, with the change of seasonal light and the hours of the day. I often come back to a place, but in this I will be back 6-7 times.
This shot was taken on my second return to this building. In fact during my first exploration the windows on the left were completely closed and the room was definitely darker. Vandals, over the years, have devastated the ancient shutters by powerfully entering the light in the forgotten hall.
Unfortunately over the years this building has been vandalized enormously because the place has been spread, I had the good fortune to photograph it before the damage of vandals were very obvious. The armchair in the photo was the protagonist of many of my shots before it was brutally incinerated.
Many doors and windows facing the outside have been walled, prohibiting the light from filtering into the rooms and illuminating the decorations.
This is an example of spreading the name of the location that leads to the unraveling of the same. A palace that remained “unharmed” for hundreds of years has suffered an exponential ruin within a few years, without the guilt of time.
The sensationalism of the discovery and the consequent fashion grown on youtube of this kind of explorations, inevitably lead to the ruin of the places, because of individuals without ethics that minimize the respect.
Recently an arson has burned all the rooms of the top floor, greatly accelerating the death of this majestic palace.
Under some shots of the other rooms, the most interesting are the main stairs, with wrought iron handrails, the reception hall on the ground floor with its beautiful arched ceiling supported by several columns, and some secondary rooms.











