Louise Long is a writer and photographer based in Hackney, London, focused on stories of culture and place. Her work has been published widely with titles including Wallpaper*, Conde Nast Traveller, and the Financial Times. Louise holds an MA in Fine Art Photography from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Art History from Cambridge University. She is the Founder of Linseed Journal, an independent print publication on culture and environment.
Just shy of two hours from the center of Florence, the greens and pinks of Renaissance churches have become the palette of a remote Sienese landscape;…