To experience Carnival in Sardinia is a unique and emotion-filled
experience.
Here we find an age-old ritual relating to the idea of death and rebirth,
propitiatory dances and the Dionysus cult. What lives on today is the
gestural expressiveness, the rhythm and the anthropomorphic and
zoomorphic representations disguised as goats, bulls, stags and wild
boars.
On the island, people use the word Carrasecare, instead of Carnival.
Etymologically, the word means ‘to dismember living flesh’, this is
linked to the fact that, unlike other areas of Italy, Carnival is intended
as an event of death, which then leads to a rebirth following the
continuous cycle of life.
To observe their gestural expressiveness, their dances and animal skin
costumes is like being encircled by the historical memory of these
lands which each village preserves in a unique way.
Born in Rome in 1976, where he lives and works.
Since 2007 is part of "Officine Fotografiche" photo roman association that acts as a training center for photographers of all levels, where he was, and continues to attend courses, seminars and workshops to professional level.
In 2009 participated in a workshop organized by the city of Palermo Mother India School a center for photography, created and directed by Shobha Battaglia photographer for the Contrasto.
Some of his works have been reports recently published in National Geographic, Lonely Planet and The Trip Magazine.
