“The Lower World is the title of my long term (2001-2014) photographic project into the dimension of mental illness and within the context of the last fully functioning six criminal lunatic asylums in Italy. Those facilities were eventually shut down in 2015.The work represents an insight into the inmates’ lives and the reality of those asylums .The photos display a certain narrative style, aiming to make mental issues a visually accessible condition as well as offering a constructive contribution to the debate on psychiatric institutions and social exclusion.”