Riccardo Carnovalini
Born in La Spezia in 1957, Riccardo Carnovalini has been walking and photographing Italy and Europe for over forty years, narrating their beauty and contradictions. A "slow" revolution made of infinite steps, of love and passion shared and passed on. Radio and television stories, about twenty books, and hundreds of reports in travel and nature magazines, from Atlante to Airone and Epoca. Photographer for the Touring Club Italiano and the Istituto Geografico De Agostini, and author for the international agency Getty Images. Specialized in the Italian landscape, his archive contains half a million photos, many in medium-format film.
His journeys on foot include: twice across the Apennines and three times across the Alps from end to end; four thousand kilometers along the coasts from Trieste to Ventimiglia; the circumnavigation of Sardinia and Sicily; Camminaitalia, eight months in the mountains to promote the Sentiero Italia; PasParTu, six thousand kilometers without a fixed destination through an Italy that trusts; the Appian Way from Rome to Brindisi. Europe from Trieste to Denmark at the fall of the Berlin Wall, the TransAlpedes from Vienna to Nice, Occitania a pè from the Alps to the Pyrenees, and all of Scandinavia to Nordkinn. His latest adventure, 365 Times Europe, is narrated here through his photographs.
Anna Rastello
Anna was born in Turin in 1962, an IT enthusiast since the mid-70s with extensive professional experience in the field, and a mother by choice since 1984: 3 biological daughters and 8 foster children with whom she shared significant periods of their lives. In 2011, she started walking to fulfill a promise and continues to walk today for a better society.
Always passionate about psychological sciences, she has gained a background as a Counselor through many years of personal and formal training, convinced that relationships between people and those between people and the environment are fundamental to well-being.
Since 1997, following a personal experience, she has dedicated herself to learning and training to change the perspective on disability and vulnerability, certain that a society accessible to all is the solution to improving life for the entire community.
She is the author of three books, in which she narrates lives and journeys.