Narrativa Memoir
On My Tracks is a lyrical and intimate journey through memory, loss, and the quiet strength of presence.
Structured as a poetic narrative, the book weaves together reflective writing and evocative photography to explore the emotional echoes of past bonds, the weight of absence, and the resilience of those who choose to keep walking.
Written with honesty and depth, On My Tracks speaks to anyone who has ever stopped to ask:
What have I lost, what have I held onto, and what will remain of me?
On My Tracks – A journey through words, images, and memory
What remains of us when time passes through us? What traces do we leave behind, what silences do we carry with us?
On My Tracks is an intimate, authentic, and visual book.
An autobiographical narrative that blends writing and photography to tell a story that is not only geographical, but deeply personal.
Through carefully chosen words and powerful images, Marcello Pitardi leads us through three essential stages of existence: Who I was, Who I am, Who I will be.
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Each section is a fragment of life, a reflection, a confession never shouted. The author’s voice moves gently through memories and absences, real places and inner spaces. Time becomes a substance to carve with brief, essential sentences that often turn into poetry.
The photographs – eighteen in total – don’t simply illustrate the text: they expand it, deepen it, question it.
Black and white and color alternate in a visual rhythm that supports the narrative, reinforcing the sense of a path made of light and shadow, presence and emptiness.
On My Tracks is not a traditional novel.
It’s a hybrid, deeply personal book – yet it speaks to anyone who has lived, lost, or waited.
A work about memory and identity, about the strength to begin again, even when something is missing.
Because it’s often in those empty spaces that what truly matters begins to grow.
Marcello Pitardi, photographer and author, lives in Lamezia Terme, Italy.
For over forty years, he has explored reality through the lens and the written word.
Founder of Pixel Photo Magazine and curator of the international exhibition Visio Mentis, in this book he brings together for the first time the two languages that define him: photography and writing.
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For those who seek a kind of reading that doesn’t forget the heart.