In 2021 and 2022, I visited logistics zones and rest areas in Rome (Lazio, IT), Paris (Île-de-France, FR), and Madrid (Coslada, Vicálvaro, Mercamadrid, ES) to photograph truck drivers during their mandatory weekly break — which, across most of Europe, typically falls on a Sunday.
Everything we consume has travelled by truck: food, medicine, furniture, electronics… even the buildings we live in, and the trucks themselves. Everything.
DOMENICA was born from the need to observe, listen to, and portray those who keep goods moving — precisely in the rare moments when they are all at rest.
In a sector facing a generational crisis, fewer young people are choosing this life. Some still inherit it — in the form of dreams, values, or vehicles passed down from parent to child. But conditions are harsh: not all employers are understanding when mileage stalls due to border delays, legally mandated pauses, or volatile fuel prices. A complex web of global energy markets and European geopolitics is steadily eroding the workers’ margins.
DOMENICA captures truck drivers when they slow down. When they rest. When they wait. Alone or among peers. Sometimes in silence, sometimes sharing stories, tools, tobacco, football, or Wi-Fi. Cooking. Cleaning. Engaging with the landscape.
It is an essay on the human infrastructure of logistics — on the ties between work, landscape, and dignity.
Because in each vehicle, and in the people who drive them, we see reflected the movement and the stillness, the landscape and the city, and everything that connects them with us.
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