In 2018 the Italian photographer Francesco Neri won the first prestigious August Sander Prize for portrait photography of the Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne. His portrait studies of the farming people of his northern Italian homeland, made analogue as contact prints from his 8x10 inch large-format negatives, can be printed full-format in this book. Neri, who studied under Guido Guidi and stands in the tradition of the early Italian colour photographers, carefully composes his portraits of men, women and children of the families of the land.