Italy’s Legendary Cowboys of the Maremma, Photographs by Gabrielle Saveri

The current project of Gabrielle Saveri, a photographer, writer, and artist based in California’s Napa Valley, the I Butteri della Maremma photo series, taken from 2013–2019, depicts Italy’s “cowboys,” known as the butteri, a group of native cattle breeders and horsemen and women whose origins are said to date back to Etruscan times.