These pictures tell a story about a voyage in which the people and places portrayed share a common denominator: a black sweater.

Uniforms per se annul one's personality. In this case, however, they accentuate and enhance the subjects' persona, which is unique and much stronger precisely because it is essential.

This book is a story with a message: the black sweater is a symbol, a thread of wool yarn that never breaks and links different people in faraway places. The sole sweater is like a monochrome indispensable for the picture that gives meaning to the concept and serves as a stimulating limit.

Carlo Orsi's photographs portray a variety of strong people and can be interpreted in two different ways. They show people who express an immediate and necessary relationship with their surroundings, or they depict places naturally populated by their inhabitants. These two entities belong to each other, clearly forming a double bond. All that is needed is a wrinkle, a subtle gesture, or a pose, or a natural or architectural element to make a statement and determine the legs on this incomparable, unique voyage around the world that can never be repeated, even if the same route is to be taken again.

The reason for the black sweater is to eliminate the superfluous and indicate a possible relationship, a very simple thing that lets us recognise and share, spend time together, eliminating complications and barriers. attempting to create a "soft" globalisation produced by the soul, words and feelings.

Needless to say, Carlo Orsi is an exceptional person who has conserved precious emotional strength over the years and is always willing to acknowledge his own contradictions and flaws.

While personal information should never be included in introductions, we will ignore that little bit of advice and say that this book portrays a soul on a journey. You can see it reflected in the pictures, in the choice of the subject, and in these characteristic, unmistakable skies.

As always, Carlo is on a journey of self-discovery, wearing a black sweater. This evident piece of information turns this sequence of photos into a sort of precious self-portrait that reveals something of each of us, our generosity and willingness to expose our soul and vulnerability, touched by places and circumstances of life.

These photographs let us hear the sounds of the city, the wind, silence and myriad voices that can easily include our own.