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White Souls

You can kill, you can steal, you can betray, but on Holy Friday in Sicily, all you need
is a white tunic to make you "pure".

Palagonia, is a small sicilian country, the Holy Week is particularly felt by its
population; four confraternities passed down from father to son an ancient
tradition that makes men all equal under the eyes of a dead Christ.

Into the crowd you can see saints and demons, you can see innocence and guilt,
the sacred and the profane. The strong sun of the noon shines the white tunics
and create a strong contrast with the faces burned by the sun of the fields. In the
silence you can see thousands souls speak with their eyes and their expressions...

And there, in the midday sun, you hear the lament of white and black souls that
slowly advancing, between shadows and lights of an old sicilian country.

Palagonia 04/14/2017

Andrea Scirè is an Italian street photographer based in Treviso. Sicilian by origin, he founded fotostreet.it, recognised among the 45 most recommended street photography blogs worldwide. His work has been internationally awarded at PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris (Gold 2017), IPA New York (Second Prize 2017), and TIFA Tokyo (Silver 2019), among others. He approaches street photography not as a genre but as a way of seeing and inhabiting the world — a practice that crosses documentary, portraiture, and human observation. His series have been exhibited internationally.

Awards PX3 — Prix de la Photographie Paris

PX3 2023: Honorable Mention — Ambelia, The Humanity Behind (Special/Street Photography)
PX3 2022: Bronze — 36 Hours (Press/Feature Story)
PX3 2020: Bronze — Trust Me (Advertising/Self-Promotion)
PX3 2020: Bronze — 10 Days After There Was Only Silence (Special/Street Photography)
PX3 2020: Honorable Mention — Alter Ego (Special/Street Photography)
PX3 2018: Honorable Mention — 108 Years Later (Press/General News)
PX3 2017: Gold — White Souls (Press/General News)
PX3 2015: Honorable Mention — Behind the Scenes (Press/Feature Story)
PX3 2014: Honorable Mention — Passion (Press/General News)

TIFA — Tokyo International Foto Awards

TIFA 2019: Silver — Trust Me (Advertising/Self-Promotion)
TIFA 2019: Silver — A Matter of Faith (People/Culture)

IPA — International Photography Awards

IPA 2022: Honorable Mention — 36 Hours
IPA 2020: Honorable Mention — Trust Me
IPA 2019: Honorable Mention — The Giraffe's Joy / Palio di Siena
IPA 2017: Second Prize — White Souls (Traditions and Cultures)
IPA 2016: Honorable Mention — A Matter of Faith
IPA 2015: Honorable Mention — Italian Summer
IPA 2015: Honorable Mention — A Good Friday
IPA 2015: Honorable Mention — Behind the Scenes
IPA 2015: Honorable Mention One Shot — Home

Other

FIIPA 2016: Honorable Mention (Street Photography)
WSP 2016: Special Mention — A Few Years Later
WSP 2015: Special Mention — About Life