The Viapori dockyard boasts almost three centuries of uninterrupted activity. Where warships were once built, ships with historical significance are now restored.
Every winter the dockyard shelters a fleet of traditional wooden sailing ships built in the aftermath of WWII for the coastal trade.
They ensured the supply of building materials for the reconstruction of Helsinki, were meant to work hard and live short.
Thanks to two generations of people who sailed and lovingly preserved them, a few of these ships survive.

Infine Arts Editions, 2016
106 pages; 20x25cm paper back
more than 100 pictures

"Winter Voyage to Finland" is a journey to the discovery of the community of Finnish maritime pilots, their traditions and environment.
Jacopo Brancati spent three winters staying at different pilot stations, along the coast from the eastern border to the west, then up to the north.
Welcomed by the pilots as a fellow worker, he shared with them during long winter months the life, work and waiting hours at a pilot station and aboard the ships that land or leave Finland.
This experience is narrated like in a fresco by Jäinen matka Suomeen, that the National Maritime museum of Finland commissioned to the Author with the support of Finnpilot, the pilotage state owned company.
From this photographic work, entirely made with film cameras, the Maritime Museum of Finland, Merikeskus Vellamo has chosen sixty fine art prints for its collections.

Infine Arts Editions, 2015
122 pages; more than 100 black and white photos.
Hard back

This black and white series is a silent journey into the impressionists’ Island, close to Paris, France.
The author uses the special light of the river Seine valley to describe a world of shadows. Where men tried several times to settle, nothing is left but the bruised remains of their presence that little by little, inexorably, forgetfulness and nature swallow.

Infine Arts Editions, 2014

Epuisé

For a year, Jacopo Brancati shared the life of the workers of the port of Genoa, one of the largest in the Mediterranean. His photo-reportage represents a stunning witness of the activities and atmosphere so peculiar to this «town within the town» where by all weather, 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, men guide and assist the over 20.000 ships yearly entering the harbour of Genoa

In 2007 the book was awarded the "Sanremo Libro del Mare" prize for the photographic book section

Check out some pages and, if you wish to buy the book find it in the best bookshops in Italy, in the maritime bookshops of France or buy it on the web from the publisher

ERGA Edizioni, Genova - 2004
www.erga.it

Jacopo Brancati photos from "Jäinen matka Suomen" are published in the Finnish maritime pilots book "Elämää Luotsiasemilla", relating hundred-year-old history of life and work at pilots' stations

Ed. Luotsiliitto Luotsikirjasto,
Finland 2012

Sonia Olcese and Jacopo Brancati signed 5 articles and about 12 photos for the exhibition catalogue.

200 pages book,
Hardback,

Ed. Musée Potuaire
2013 - France