Man at sea. Taormina, Sicily 2016. Outside of the box #14 Images from my archive. #sicily #Sicilia #Taormina #fisher #mediterraneo #mediterrean #sea #mare #seaview #photography #photooftheday #antoniosansica #archive #art #landscape #paesaggio #fotografia
Hard talks in the square. Maybe things, we shouldn’t know about. Outside of the box #9 Images from my archive. #Sicily #Sicilia #Italy #Italia #neorealism #square #people #film #filmisnotdead #fishes #fish #sicilians #photooftheday #antoniosansica #streetphotography #35mm #urban #kodak #myfeatureshoot #italians #kodaktrix400 #bw #blackandwhite #catania
Natura morta. Eyes. Catania’s food market, Sicily. Outside of the box #8 Images from my archive. #Sicily #Sicilia #Italy #Italia #neorealism #market #food #film #filmisnotdead #fishes #fish #sicilians #photooftheday #antoniosansica #streetphotography #35mm #urban #kodak #myfeatureshoot #fotomobile #kodaktrix400 #bw #blackandwhite
Men at Catania’s market. Sicily. Outside of the box #7 . Images from my archive. #Sicily #Sicilia #Italy #Italia #neorealism #market #food #film #filmisnotdead #friends #men #sicilians #photooftheday #antoniosansica #streetphotography #35mm #urban #kodak #myfeatureshoot #fotomobile #kodaktrix400 #bw #blackandwhite
Images from the garden. #home #sicily #sicilia #trapani #everydayitaly #countryside #palms #garden #night #nature #green #instagood #instadaily #picoftheday
Gibellina
Here I am again.
During my Christmas holidays at home, Benny very intensely asked me to go and visit Gibellina, a small city in the province of Trapani(Sicily), as you might know my home town.
It’s known that Gibellina doesn’t exist anymore; it was completely destroyed during a tremendous earthquake on 15th January 1968, where circa 400 people lost their lives and many more were injured.
Nowadays Gibellina Nuova is a new town reborn at 20km away from the old town and has become a real open air museum, as many famous Italian artists have installed their artworks across the streets.
The old town, also called “Il Grande Cretto”, is now one of the biggest artwork in the world, as the famous Italian artist Alberto Burri in 1984 covered completely the ruins with concrete, preserving the city streetscape.
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Chasing a Dream. Europe
I have recently read Bilal(unlikely I couldn’t find any English version), written by Fabrizio Gatti, an Italian journalist for the weekly magazine L'espresso.
The book tells the stories of many people who every day risk their life chasing the dream of reaching Europe, no matter how. The price for they dreamed journey is expansive, nearly 2000 € (Euros), which will just pay the trip from the north coasts of Africa to the southern regions of Europe, such money will not include the money payed for the trip trough the Sahara desert and the money stole by the army and the police! Working in all sorts of conditions and fields, even selling water for they fellow dreamers that will start the long trip trough the desert, those people do literally anything that will start their journey…
It’s well known that many of them don’t reach Europe nor the northern coast of Africa, paying the most expansive price, their LIVES. Bilal also talk about the ones who finally arrive in Europe, facing the often very cloudy way to obtain a job and a life.
This is an extremely short description of the magnificent work of Fabrizio Gatti, but also another occasion to speak and remember the brave of those people.
The photos below show the boats which departing from the coasts of Tunisia and Libya, are used to cross the Sicilian channel and reach Lampedusa, also called “the door of Europe”.
