When Solitude Becomes Connection - Finding Piero, Val Grande

📘 Get the e-book: Pure Encounters Vol. 1 — Piero, Val Grande → https://store.jeroenschokker.nl/b/JKRDG Meet Piero — a man who has lived in remote solitude in Val Grande, Italy for over twenty years. I hiked out to find him and photograph his life among chestnut groves, stone houses and steep mountain trails. This film blends story-driven travel with black & white portrait photography, shot on a Fujifilm X-H2. Along the way we talk weather lore (a badger skin as a “barometer”), mushrooms after the full moon, and what the landscape “tells” him each day. In the end, this isn’t a story about escape, but about connection — gratitude for the land you belong to and the simplicity of living close to nature. Read the story & extra photos: Substack — When solitude becomes connection → https://substack.com/@schokkerphoto Photography notes & gear: Fujifilm X-H2 + XF 56/1.2 & XF 23/1.4 Video: DJI Action 4 & DJI Mini 3 Pro If this resonated, subscribe for more story-driven landscape & portrait photography, and tell me in the comments: Could you live this remote for a season? #ValGrande #FujifilmXH2 #BlackAndWhitePhotography #StoryDrivenTravel #PortraitPhotography