The Salt Pans of Volterra At Sunset

• Photographer
  Sonia Corbo
• Technical Info
  Olympus E-m5markii
• Photo Date
  07/24/2022

The Volterra Salt Pans are spread over an area of 65,000 m2. The salt mines have been exploited since Etruscan times, and have always been a very important resource for the territory. For this reason the Grand Duke Leopold in the 18th century, increased production by building new factories. Then the production passed under the control of the State and later in the 90s, it was privatized. Today the saline produces about 150,000 tons/year of recrystallised salt that is used for tablets and the agro-food industry. It is the purest salt in Italy. I took these pictures last July at sunset.

I am Italian and I live in the heart of Tuscany. My passion is photography. In my opinion, capturing some moments of our existence is a real magic! At the beginning I devoted myself more to landscapes and architecture. Afterwards to a modern still-life that revolves around geometries and colors. Then my attention was seduced by portraits. I finally dedicated myself to documentary photography. I like to tell what people do through my photography. This allows me to relate to people and have a deeper dialogue with them, and that's really great.