In Home, Giancarlo Pradelli turns his attention to the neglected farmhouses scattered across the plains of Emilia in northern Italy. These buildings possess no obvious architectural distinction and rarely command notice; many stand derelict, suspended between abandonment and the possibility of rediscovery. Rather than treating them as picturesque ruins, Pradelli approaches them as quiet records of a rural culture that has nearly disappeared from modern life.

The photographs are spare, direct, and rigorously restrained. In black and white, light does the principal work: it isolates walls, openings, rooflines, and other skeletal forms, while carefully balanced compositions give each structure a measured presence. Dereliction is not romanticized, yet neither is it reduced to evidence of decline. Through the patient attention of an observer, weathered surfaces and abandoned structures acquire a grave, unexpected grace.

That tension between absence and dignity gives the book its particular force. Home is less an architectural survey than an act of looking—an attempt to recover the eloquence of ordinary, man-made objects before they vanish from the landscape and from collective memory. Its silence is deliberate, and its refusal of rhetorical effect makes the photographs especially suited to sustained, unhurried viewing.

Published by 5 Continents Editions in 2012, this hardcover volume contains 40 trichrome illustrations across 72 pages and presents the work in French, English, and Italian. For collectors, its significance lies in the clarity of its conception and the precision of its photographic language: a focused regional study in which subject, light, and sequence remain inseparable. It is a considered book about what remains when a home is no longer inhabited, but has not yet ceased to signify.