Waldensian Photographic Archives

The Landscape

In 1823 Rev William S. Gilly in his Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piedmont and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses wrote: "There are few spots which present more attractions to the eye or to the imagination than these picturesque retreats of the Vaudois, which I was induced to visit by one of those accidental circumstances, to which we sometimes owe the most agreeable events of our life".
He was one of the first foreign travellers to write about the landscape of the Valleys, finding it intimately close to the people and their faith.
In both actual historical events and in the common imagination, the Valleys are depicted as a profile of mountains, in the sense of a borderline and threshold of communication, of daily life and journey, fieldwork historical place, roots thrusting deep into the soil and branches stretching out towards Italian landscapes of evangelization and faraway lands of migration.
Views of the Valleys are one of the favourite themes of David Peyrot from the beginning of his activity as a photographer. Like his friend Davide Bert, he portrayed the transformation of part of the agricultural rural landscape into a heavily industrialised area in the late 19 th and early 20 th century.

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