Francesco Sonetti is a photographer whose work focuses on the relationship between territory, community, and the conditions that shape their continuity. His practice is based on long-term fieldwork and close attention to the forms through which social, industrial, and environmental transformations become visible in the landscape.

His projects examine spaces where collective structures have weakened or disappeared, and where the traces of adaptation, withdrawal, or resistance remain. Working between photography and research, he observes how territory becomes memory, how bodies respond to the environments they inhabit, and how resources are managed, contained, or contested.

He is currently based in Piombino, developing ongoing work in Italy and abroad.

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The territory is not neutral: it enters the body.

When the relationship between place and community fractures, the body responds.

And when the body is affected, the management of resources becomes political.

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