274 Comuni is a long-term photographic project with the intention of making visible the large number of local governments that are being dissolved in Italy due to mafia influence and infiltration. My aim is to photograph 274 local governments in order to create an exhibition and a book. The following are some initial ideas of what such a photographic exhibition might look like. Italian mafia organisations have been closely intertwined with the country's political institutions since their inception. After the Mafia was officially recognised as a cohesive criminal organisation as a result of the Maxi trials in the 1980s and 1990s, the Italian state adopted a series of ad hoc policies designed to combat the Mafia. Among them, the law on the dissolution of local governments emerged in 1991, which allows the Minister of the Interior to dissolve the administrative and political apparatus of a local government if there is suspicion of mafia infiltration. From 1991 to December 2021, 274 local governments were dissolved, including some several times. The regions most affected are Sicily, Campania, Calabria, Puglia and Lombardy. Dealing with the dissolutions raises many complex questions. Among them, for example: To what extent is the dissolution of local governments democratic or anti-democratic? Can this anti-Mafia policy be a model for other (European) countries? How many (young) people in Italy know about this policy and what do they think of it?