Malacarne - Kids come first

• Prize
• Photographer
  Francesco Faraci, Italy

A three year photographic journey in the bowels of Palermo. The
book, published in crowdfunding by Crowdbooks and edited by
Benedetta Donato, contains a selection of more than 70 photos in
which the main protagonists are children. As the subtitle says,
children come before everything else, even in those realities at the
margins of society, where there are “no written” laws that people
learn to respect as real rules, in order to survive.The right-
thinking people call them the “Malacarne” (Bad meat) an
expression of the local dialect that refers to people who can’t be
trusted and that comes in a variety of negative meanings related to
the inhabitants of certain specific areas of the city. I decided to use
the expression “Malacarne” in a provocative way in order to break
the cliché and show the other side of the coin:be children despite
the difficult situation in which they live.

• Awards
  TOP 100 Street Photographers of LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016. In 2017 my photobook Malacarne- Kids came first (Edited by Benedetta Donato and published by Crowdbooks in 2016) has been selected from the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) to participate to Photobook Phenomenon.