You can visit this country 100 times and still be speechless! Every time the same emotion and admiration for such a unique and fascinating place. You soon realize that what is incredible, different or strange for us for the Indian people is instead normality and a way of life. The charm of India through the Continue Reading
“A time capsule is a container specially prepared to store objects or information, destined to be found in a future era.”[1] In our homes there are time capsules, but we do not realize it, they are the boxes where old photos are kept. The boxes of photographs are often found in the markets, the findings Continue Reading
Who knows what our cities would be like if they were empty. Sometimes we asked ourselves, sometimes with difficulty we tried to imagine it, other times we saw it on TV. Cities are not empty, as we have often heard repeated in these weeks of pandemic. We see them empty if we make them coincide Continue Reading
My name is Narghisa I am a mattress maker. I’ve been working in this building for so long that I call it home. Here I spend most of my day and with needle and thread I sew together remnants of fabric and remnants of life. The faded photographs on the walls tell of a distant Continue Reading
For almost 10 years I have been traveling the world in search of all those little-known ethnic populations and minorities, often invisible to our society, who still survive globalization trying to keep alive their characteristic ancestral traditions. Off the coast of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia live the Bajau, indigenous peoples, nomads and stateless people Continue Reading
Every year, after the first month of summer, countless Armenians from all over the world are eager to travel to the first cathedral of the Christian world to participate in the religious ceremony that coincides with the murder of Saint Thaddeus and martyrdom of his Christian followers. This church is located 20 kilometers northeast of Continue Reading
During one of the last trips to Ethiopia returning from Gondar to Lake Tana, after about an hour’s drive my guide, Ashennafi Demoz, proposed me to attend the Coptic baptism which, at the foot of the sacred waterfall of Addis Zemen, was practiced by some friars of the nearby convent of Toragedam. After a fairly Continue Reading
In the Mangystau between faith and religious wonders. Beket Ata Shrine and Bozhira Valley Ours is a long ride in the desert steppe of Mangystau, Kazakhstan. From this country we are preparing to discover the spectacle of nature, but also curious manifestations of religious faith. We stop near a red brick building with a parade Continue Reading
In the municipality of Serra San Bruno in Calabria (VB, Italy) charcoal is still produced according to ancient processes. The project was deliberately realized in color and not in BN so as not to further enhance the harsh reality and thus faithfully document this ancient craft. The “scarazzo” is the wood that is stacked and Continue Reading
Olympos is a village nestled in the mountains of Karphatos, one of the most remote islands of Greece in the south-east of the Aegean Sea inhabited by a few hundred inhabitants. A place where it seems that time has stopped, also, because it preserves ancient traditions. A unique place, nestled between the mountains of the Continue Reading