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Lost in La Bassa: photographer Brando Ghinzelli returns "home" to recall childhood memories

Do you know that feeling of home? One that comforts and soothes you? You can't quite put your finger on it. Perhaps it's the familiarity. Safety. The warmth.

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All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

All images courtesy of the artist. Via Creative Boom submission.

But it's something we all strive to recapture when we move away from where we grew up. For Brando Ghinzelli, this sentiment formed the basis of his award-winning series, Lost in La Bassa.

"Luigi Ghirri says that melancholia can also arise when a landscape can make us remember too many things and that's probably what I felt when I shoot the images collected in this series," says Brando. "When I moved to another town I used to come back here to visit my relatives but, with the passage of time the visits have become more sporadic. That's why I decided to retrace these landscapes in order to recall lost memories from my childhood and see these lands with new eyes."

Born in Viadana (Mantua, Italy) in 1989, Brando now lives in Rome. He studied photography and photojournalism at Officine Fotografiche in Rome with Gaetano Di Filippo and has exhibited across the world. Lost in La Bassa recently won the Officine Fotografiche Portfolio in Mostra prize.

A stone monument framed by tall trees with sparse autumn foliage stands in a rural landscape, with benches on either side at ground level
Dilapidated brick farmhouse with boarded windows and a deteriorating tile roof in a flat, overgrown rural landscape
A flat agricultural landscape with electricity poles receding into the distance under an overcast sky, with scattered trees and mist obscuring the horizon
Rural farmhouse and buildings in flat Lombardy landscape with tall poplar trees under overcast sky
Wooden boat house and footbridge extending across a misty river, with trees lining both banks under grey skies
Tree-lined avenue with tall poplar trees flanking a path, leading towards a misty body of water in the distance
A tractor with equipment stands alone in a misty poplar plantation, surrounded by rows of tall, sparse trees stretching into the haze
Misty rural landscape with ploughed fields separated by a narrow path and sparse vegetation under overcast sky
Five tall concrete storage silos rise above dried reeds and vegetation in a flat rural landscape beneath an overcast sky
Two weathered concrete buildings flanking a rural road, connected by overhead power lines, under overcast skies in La Bassa, Italy
White van parked on a rural roadside with flat agricultural fields and bare trees under an overcast sky in the Po Valley region of northern Italy
A flock of birds flying in formation across a grey sky towards wooden electricity poles
A brick building with a single barred door and a rectangular plaque above it stands alone on flat grassland under grey skies in La Bassa, Italy
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