Giuliano Ferrari’s reportage about the reality of San Patrignano is characterised by a careful look at the welcoming family community aspect rather than as a place for medical and psychological therapy. The young people are photographed at work and in their free time, and the photographer’s heart is attentive to the sense of normality that they are just beginning to taste. Giuliano Ferrari’s commitment to discovering the human world that the rigorous therapeutic activity could hide can be read in their gestures, in their faces, in the context of the places and situations. A strong and authentic link with the earth and with agricultural activity emerges where animals are seen and plants grow in a renewed pact made between Man and Nature; a pact made of figures, of tons produced, of cultivated acres and animals reared, but also a pact made of gestures and glances which the photos catch with modesty and delicate realism. A diffused sense of a protective, conscious family also emerges which speaks about the 130 children present in a microcosm of some 1,800 people. Children who are born and live witnessing a renewed possibility to live in protected and conscious normality. Often the media has emphasized the numbers and figures of San Patrignano’s activity, Giuliano Ferrari’s pictures on the other hand tell the story of rediscovered serenity and the daily commitment which binds its ‘citizens’ in a special, unique human community.