I have explored Italy over many years and have developed a fascination in how this country still seems to embody the very essence of history itself. My book, "Roads to Rome" published by the Getty Museum in 2005 is a visual exploration of modern Italy in the context of its ancient backdrop using the network of Roman roads as its structure. In his Foreword, the eminent curator Colin Ford wrote, "Heseltine's beautiful black and white shadows of the distant and recent past powerfully summon up the great Roman roads of Italy, the material with which they were built, and the mean and women who have used them - and continue to do so. In these pictures, ghosts really do come to life."
