Episode 112 // Photographer and Storyteller Francesca Catalini of Sierra Winds
On today’s podcast we’re with Francesca Catalini, the photographer and storyteller behind the Sierra Winds Instagram account. Francesca has a passion for capturing some of rural America’s remaining treasures before they are forever gone from our landscape. We talk a lot through Rural Revival about the future our towns, but it’s also important that we honor the past, and we’re so glad we have people like Francesca who are doing just that.
You’ll love what Francesca is doing and how she has found a great way to honor these buildings and stories and their role in history. Let this be an encouragement to you to preserve that town history you have left. Interview the people who know it before they’re gone. Capture that important information and honor your town’s past and its legacy. And if you have a great place for Francesca to come and shoot, send her a DM and let her know about it.
Some of these places I go to, they’re decaying in front of my lens, and one day I’ll go back and they’ll be gone.
— Francesca Catalini
It’s not only the places that I need to capture before they’re gone, but the history.
— Francesca Catalini
I just feel it’s really important to have several sources for each story because each source offers a piece to the puzzle, and you can’t really get a complete story from one source.
— Francesca Catalini
