As a child I spent the majority of my summers with my grandparents and extended family in a little village just northeast of Turin, Italy at the base of the Alps. My family often visited Italy, and my parents placed great importance in experiencing the culture and traveling to see surrounding regions.
I was enamored by the differences in culture and architecture than we have here in the States. Everything over there was so old and built differently. My Grandfather was in construction and I have early memories of him bringing me to a castle he was helping to restore. Every town and village had a castle on top of the closest hill, many of which were closed to the public at the time. Since then, there has been a growing trend to renovate and reopen these historical buildings for public consumption.
From those early memories I experienced as a child, sparked a photography project that Kate and I embarked upon just a few years ago.
Castles are found in abundance across the landscape of northern Italy. The northern regions are filled with a variety of different styles and sizes of castles from different time periods.
We worked on a project photographing six of these castles located in the Canavese region, which is a sub-region of the Piedmonte, located in the northwest corner of Italy. Here are a few of the images in remembrance of my favorite project I have photographed.
