“To know each other is the best way to understand each other. To understand each other is the only way to love each other.”

“Can’t you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him”

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Laura Salvinelli, portraitist, photojournalist and social photographer. She started photographing when she was 20 years old, now it’s been over a third of a century and it’s still her only job and a great passion.

(All photos published by courtesy of Laura Salvinelli)

T. Gejadze – Question: Please name the country or countries, the nature of which you charmed?

Laura Salvinelli: I am deeply, completely charmed by Afghanistan, which is the most amazing and in a way familiar country I ever visited. I feel that images coming for the external world interconnect with my interior images. That’s why traveling for me is familiar and intimate as well as exotic: all travels are also interior experiences, and that’s why they are precious.