Everydayshoes was born in 2015 as a long-term project I curated within several Italian prisons.

Here, inmates engage in a therapeutic journey through photography and its language, creating a narrative

made of images and words that reflect their personal stories. It is a workshop where photography

becomes a tool for self-reflection  a way to explore and cross personal boundaries and limitations.

I asked a group of photographers to donate material that I could share with the inmates: images capable of stirring emotions, thoughts, and dialogue. I had the privilege of bringing rare beauty into places marked by invisible yet profound suffering.

The project eventually reached beyond the prison walls, finding its way into universities, museums, and finally being collected into a book and a documentary with their words, and with our images.

The aim is to portray life inside prison from a new perspective  one that suspends judgment and focuses on people as individuals, with their burden of mistakes and failures, but also their hopes and silences.

The spirit of the project is to tell these stories without filters, striving to preserve and reveal the humanity that,

in places where redemption often seems impossible, risks being lost.

Contributors: 

Roger Ballen, Michael Ackerman, Stefan Ruiz, Mikhael Subotzky ,Lina Scheynius, Adam Cohen 

Arja Hyytiäinen, Piotr Zbierski, Angelo Turetta, Lorenzo Castore, Guido Gazzilli, Damien Daufresne 

Gabrielle Duplantier, Gael Bonnefon, Yulia Kazban, Magdalena Switek, Ilias Georgiadis, Igor Pisuk ,Cato Lein

Lina Pallotta, Stephane Charpentier, JH Engstrom.