Peter Granser, born in Hanover in 1971 and of Austrian nationality, is one of the young photographers with the greatest international projection. Alzheimer is the project he worked on from 2001 within the World Press Photo Masterclass, a prestigious international workshop whose participants were given the theme of identity; Granser became interested precisely in its loss, the progressive and inexorable loss of oneself. He went to the Gradmann-Haus, a residence in Stuttgart for Alzheimer's patients that takes only 24 residents and treats between 10 and 15 day patients, in order to portray them. The result is 39 images that show the extraordinary dignity with which the patients face the loss of the memory of what their lives were. Christoph Ribbat, a professor at the University of Bonn, reflects in one of the texts on the importance of the photographer's work: with prudence, sobriety and optimism the images start a dialogue and direct our gaze towards faces and gestures that we would otherwise not have bothered to observe.