Favara 

In June 2022, during a photographic workshop, me and other photography students were asked to describe the place we were in through plants.

The place was Favara, a small town in the south-west of Sicily. That’s one of the poorest areas of all Italy.
We could see first-hand a reality in which mafia ruled the place: destruction, abandonment and illegal building were characterizing the place.

The pictures I shot aim to represent Favara through the theatricality: the way light interacted with the surroundings, especially plants, making them the protagonists of a play; agricultural sheets, through which sunlight filtered creating a game of shapes and light/shade with plants; sheep in a roof-collapsed sheepfold.

The project was created during the workshop “Paradigma Naturale”, held by Master IUAV in Photography, and curated by Filippo Romano and Francesco Paleari. Two of the pictures are comprehended in “Paradigma Naturale”, a group photobook.