Honorable Mention / 2012 / Press / Sports

SPAGHETTI WRESTLING

In Italy, in recent years is growing, the phenomenon of wrestling, boys of all walks of life train up to 4 days a week and arrange for the weekend, a show still without sponsors and by engaging them directly in expenses.
Each is actively involved as he can, making sewing the costumes from their mothers, or asking for an hand to his father or friends for everything that concerns the preparation of the weekly show.
"Better this than drugs and clubs", they said that my question "Why do Wrestling"? I call them "Goodfellas", because many of them still live at home with their parents, some studies, other work, but all of them still have the American dream, believing strongly that even in Italy, this mix of sports and acting entertainment, can explode here.

Paolo Marchetti was born in Italy, he has been working for eleven years in the Italian cinema and commercial industry as camera assistant, favoring the italian and foreigners cinematographers and began his photographic studies soon with particolar attention to political and anthropology issues. He attends several workshops with authoritative photojournalists, meeting frequently many educational initiatives in his country
Paolo currently lives in Italy in the city of Rome and works as a freelance personal projects. In the last years he told stories far from home, creating reports in Brazil, Cuba, Europe, India, USA, Haiti, central Africa, central America realizing personal projects or collaborating with humanitarian organizations, but its long-term project, (main ongoing project), realizing it at home, in his country for three years now: The extreme right in Italy.