Mille Miglia 2025

The Mille Miglia is not a race in the conventional sense. It is a regularity event run on public roads across Italy, and the cars that compete in it are the real protagonists: pre-1957 vehicles that spent most of their lives in museums and private collections, now back on tarmac with original mechanics and drivers in period leather helmets. This project was shot along the route through Lake Garda and in Verona, moving between the roadside energy of cars passing at speed and the stillness of the Piazza Bra paddock, where the same machines could be examined up close. A wooden steering wheel, a chrome wing mirror reflecting the square behind it, a round headlight on a 1920s Bugatti: details that disappear at 80km/h and become everything when the car is parked in front of a Roman amphitheatre. The Mille Miglia works because the gap between the cars and the landscape they pass through is so large it almost stops making sense. That gap is where the photographs are.