MILAN — Celebrated across continents with major retrospectives and solo shows and based in Paris since 1973, Italian photographer Paolo Roversi is finally headed back home — metaphorically, with the unveiling of a permanent gallery in his hometown of Ravenna. “It’s so great to be back after 50 years of [self] ‘exile,’ especially with such an important recognition,” Roversi told WWD with a chuckle in an interview this week. “Ravenna is my home. Although I’ve been living in Paris for over 50 years, I feel I belong to this city, where I’ve spent my entire childhood and teenage years and that is so profoundly rooted in me,” he said. You May Also Like Roversi’s elegiac style was inspired by the Byzantine architecture and cultural backdrop of his hometown as well as the work of August Sander, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. “Ravenna has always held a place in my heart and its identity trickled down into my work.…