Davide VIRDIS lives in Florence, where he graduated in architecture with a thesis on the relationship between photography and the representation of the humanized landscape. His research focuses primarily on architectural and landscape photography, often collaborating with sociologists, anthropologists, and urban planners. He pursues personal projects alongside research commissioned by both private individuals and public authorities. Since 1995, he has conducted photographic research aimed at exploring the complex relationship between the contemporary landscape and the ever-evolving dynamics related to the processes of development and evolution of the territory linked to the forms inherent in modernity. He has also experimented with the use of photography as an analytical tool within urban planning processes. In recent years, he has collaborated with the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence, the Department of Architecture of Alghero, the Department of Architecture of Cagliari, and the IUAV University of Venice, participating as a lecturer in courses and seminars focused on the use of photography as a research and design tool for architecture and landscape. In 2009, he began a project that spans all of his work, focusing on the relationship between water and landscape. This led to a commission from the ISRE (Sardinia’s Higher Regional Institute of Ethnography) in 2010 to produce WATER MEN, a photographic study focusing on the Sardinian landscape interpreted through the signs resulting from the relationship between people, water, and land. In 2011, commissioned by the University of Florence, he created ROUTES OF WATER, a photographic project that follows a Mediterranean route linked to the Phoenician settlements, spanning Tunisia, Malta, Syria, Lebanon, and Greece. His relationship with water landscapes continued with further commissions for various research projects in Sardinia, Tuscany, Abruzzo, and Veneto. In 2008, he received a special mention from the jury of the Sardinia Region’s 1st Landscape Prize for his photographic research on the system of abandoned Mediterranean gardens in the Sassari valleys, entitled I GIARDINI RITROVATI (The Rediscovered Gardens). in 2011 he won second prize in the photography section of the 5th Landscape Award of the Sardinia Region with the photographic project “RELITTI”