Along the Wound

In September 2016, during the weeks leading up to the U.S. presidential election, this project traces a journey across the country aboard Greyhound buses, moving through cities, highways, and peripheral landscapes. Beginning in New York on September 11, fifteen years after the attacks, the work unfolds away from official political stages, focusing instead on the people who inhabit the space between them. The project was developed with the valuable collaboration of journalist Ferdinando Cotugno.

The photographs follow passengers encountered along the route, each carrying a different position, expectation, or fear. Conversations reveal a country marked by tension and uncertainty, where political choices are inseparable from personal histories. A farmer from Mississippi, a retiree traveling south, a taxi driver in Memphis, a caregiver hoping for protection, each voice contributes to a fragmented portrait of a nation struggling to define itself.

The Greyhound becomes both a means of transportation and a space of observation, carrying individuals across vast distances while holding them briefly together. What emerges is not a unified narrative, but a sequence of encounters that reveal the complexity of the American landscape at a moment of transition.