“Down by the river” began in the summer of 2022, one of the hottest in recent years, and continues in 2023, 70 years after Paul Strand settled in Luzzara (Italy) to write the book "Un Paese", accompanied with texts by Cesare Zavattini. The project does not want to replicate that experience but represents a personal vision of that territory today, a journey in which the imaginary of those places relates to the spaces, atmospheres and today's problems. I left from Luzzara to extend my exploration to the neighboring towns, in the area known as the "Terra di Po e dei Gonzaga". A journey along the banks of an increasingly dying river, on the trail of those lands. To meet those metaphysical landscapes that alternate with more earthly landscapes and understand what remains of the identity of those places and of provincial life. And what remains of that great river Po that has always been an essential presence, reassuring in its normal course and now disturbing in its current absence.