Douglas Gayeton / Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town

"Does the “slow” approach apply to your approach as a photographer?

Well, each photograph in the book is actually not one but at times hundreds of individual photographs combined together. The process of photographing can take hours. Then the writing on each image takes weeks. The text is a collaboration between me and my subjects. We work on them together, which also takes time—so yes, you could say I have a “slow” approach to photography, both because I forge a relationship with my subject and because these aren’t quick snapshots taken from a moving car. They’re carefully plotted and intimate."

Interview by Rosecrans Baldwin / The morning news / Published November 16, 2009