I happened to host, in my small holiday home in Vittoria (in the southeastern part of Sicily), a somewhat original Belgian photographer, Dirk.
A few years earlier, he had decided to leave his job, sell all his belongings, and be a globetrotter in Europe for a while, to discover interesting places outside the traditional circuits of tourist tours.
He traveled by bus and upon arriving in Vittoria, he always moved on foot, even taking long routes, like the one through the Valley of the Ippari River, which winds for about ten kilometers to the sea of Scoglitti.
A month later he left for another stage of his journey and, a few weeks later, he gave me the gift of sending me his photos, those he had taken in this part of Sicily during his stay.
I propose here a selection because I particularly liked them: I believe Dirk has managed to capture very well certain peculiar characteristics of our land, and the poetry of certain views perhaps arises from the contrast between the harsh beauty of some landscapes, the antiquity of certain architectures, and the softness of the September light, or the golden light at night.
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