The 76-page book tells, through photographs, accompanied by concise descriptions, what remains of the Montevecchio mining complex, known by the author during his childhood spent in Cagliari, where he lived, and Guspini where the grandparents lived and where the excursions with his brothers began towards the mine.

The book is the first book by Danilo Murru, a photographer from Cagliari born in 1973, living in London, where he graduated from the London College of Printing.

Second edition publication to accompany our latest exhibition The Furthest Point Was Home.

The 56-page softback book acts as a simple catalogue for the show. There are three introductory essays, followed by 52 images. The typography is set in Yport by Luzi Type.

Designed by Tim George.

London-based photographer Danilo Murru revisits his native Sardinia more than a quarter of a century after he “escaped”.

This photographic journey, shown as part of Deptford X art festival fringe 2025, explores Danilo’s emotional reconnection with the island.

The Furthest Point Was Home is captured as a series of spatial fragments, inscrutable moments and insignificantdetails, as well as unexpected encounters with people he met along the way.

The project avoids the tourist cliché of Sardinia as a Mediterranean holiday paradise, instead roaming the streets of Danilo's home city Cagliari and other locations across the island.

“I drove to remote and rural villages where I have never been before,” says Danilo. “I wandered for hours, barely seeing a soul, sometimes nobody at all.”