O EMANCATO

GR E PI ORR TAG O N S I C I LY ’ S S E C R E T
 GIRO MANCATO
“Giro Mancato - Reportage on the hidden places of Sicily.”
A hidden Sicily, little usable to those who as tourists come to visit the
most common, central and now renowned places.
Intimate photographs, representation of an atypical point of view; a
Sicily that is twofold and multiple, its humus slow and fast at the same
time, a reality that is in step with time but often gives way; a Sicily that re-
mains stationary in a timeless dimension but still evolves in its insularity.
Landscapes pierced by color and light and the gaze of those who know it
as no man’s land but also as everyone’s land.

G.Nicolosi
 O EMANCATO
GR E PI ORR TAG O N S I C I LY ’ S S E C R E T
A D AG I R A & D I N TO R N I STA N N O T U T T I B E N E ALDO PALAGONIA

I do not know for what recondite connection, when in November

2021 I was asked to participate in a photographic project that had as its
background a beautiful and unfamiliar place in Sicily, the Canadian war
cemetery in Agira (En) jumped to my mind
I had learned of the existence of this place one morning about two years
ago from a tg3 Sicilia news column, which invited people to visit it as a
site that was as beautiful as it was little known about the island.
Since that morning , despite being very intrigued by the existence of this
place I had not yet managed to arrange a visit .
I confess that I might not have even agreed to join this project if this
place had not come to mind, considering that photographically I have
never been attracted to landscaping.
When I searched the web for the Canadian war cemetery in Agira to
acquire more information, to my surprise, I discovered that there are
three other war cemeteries in Sicily, two of which, the one in Catania and
Syracuse, where Commonwealth soldiers rest to the extent of 2,135 and
1,059 soldiers, respectively, and a third, the Germanic Military Cemetery in
Motta S. Anastasia where, inside a large shrine, 4,561 German soldiers, all
young men who fought in World War II, died in Sicily and remained here,
My first visit to the Canadian war cemetery in Agira, made in the
very first days of March, revealed to me a place of special beauty and
suggestion. A cemetery in which the graves of the 490 fallen young men,
marked by white stelae, wrap around, arranged in rows a small hillside
overlooking a natural setting of unusual beauty: on the east side, Pozzillo
Lake, nestled in a verdant valley, from where, in the background, one can
see, clouds allowing, snow-capped Mount Etna.
It was an unusual discovery of a place of unexpected beauty, which in
addition to instilling sincere feelings of peace induces you to profound
and unexpectedly topical reflections on the meaning of life and the horror
and nonsense of war.
On a subsequent stop I also wanted to visit and photograph the Com-
monwealth war cementery in Catania and the Germanic cemetery in
Motta S.Anastasia. The former lying on the Catania plain in the shadow
of a looming Etna and the latter in a countryside surrounded by meadows
and olive trees.
ANTONINO COSTA S I C I LY C O U N T RYS I D E

I began this work in 2003. The intent was and remains, as the work is still
in progress, to photograph the archaic soul of Sicily, the one that does
not change or if it changes it does so very slowly, imperceptibly. The work
takes place in the hinterland of this vast island, walking through ancient
villages and countryside; between places of Greek myth and Sicilian
literary landscape, between modernity and preservation of the “Bello”
(Kalokagathia).
U N ’ I S O L A N O STA LG I CA BEATRICE INDELICATO

The six photographs are taken from the extended project ‘’ A

nostalgic Island ‘’ which speaks of a Sicily with a slow, dreamlike,
redefined atmosphere, suspended between past and present. The
warm landscapes of Sicily are mixed with the presence of animals
and human figures portrayed letting them blend with the background,
complementing each other.
DANIELE RIZZO S E A
 My passion for photography begins on the shores of the sea, about 5 years ago by chance.
A case that slowly made sense of my time, myself and the stories of all the people I meet,
held dear in shots worthy of story and memory.
The first thing I think when we talk about Sicily is the sea, its scent, its colors, the richness it gives us.

The shots that I present are moments of daily, carefree and working life of my My passion for photography begins on the shores of the
sea, about 5 years ago by chance.
A case that slowly made sense of my time, myself and the stories of all the people I meet,
held dear in shots worthy of story and memory.
The first thing I think when we talk about Sicily is the sea, its scent, its colors, the richness it gives us.

The shots that I present are moments of daily, carefree and working life of my beloved Sicily.
FA M I LY O N OT H E R A P Y GIUSI NICOLOSI

The donkeys, a field, the care and attention, the anticipa-

tion and the amazement at seeing a little donkey kicking
bizarrely in the meadow. There are places where time
suddenly slows down, where slow living and recovering
humanity seems to be the prerogative of a few, but it only
takes a field and donkeys for the rediscovery of the inse-
parable bond between animal and man, where the animal
has a soul and man (from lat. homo and humus) is earth.
LORELLA AIOSA A S O N G F O R H U M A N I T Y
We have been living for a long time in a world
dominated by consumerism, by unbridled races
for power, by possession, filling and nourishing
our inner voids through things, from profit,
fast, immediate, from self-exaltation, to fame
and success, and wanting to always feel better
than others.
Totally focused on a vision based on the
exaltation of our EGO, we have forgotten who
we really are and where we come from, we have
lost contact with our true human nature, our
needs, our basic priorities, we are losing the
ability to look around and enjoy simple, pri-
mordial things, direct contact with nature, with
the earth, which like a mother always welcomes
us into her womb, listens to us, teaches us to
listen, to give oneself, to take care of things and
living beings, to give life, find life and cultivate
it in all its forms.
This is the story of Epifanio known as “Fani-
no”, a humble, simple, 76-year-old man who li-
ves in a small village lane in Bompietro, a small
Sicilian village in the Sicilian hinterland where I
come from, in the province of Palermo.
Fanino has lived alone for many years in a dila-
pidated structure, very few useful things, some
tools to work the land, his cats, his many junk
accumulated in the corners of the house, his
medicinal herbs of which he knows all the an-
cient properties’, its sources of water, its plants
that call my little girls, its hands that talk about
work and care, its inner dialogue with God, the
theories on Energy, the eyes with cataracts that
see much more than what we see while seeing,
rewrites for us a song that many should listen
to: feet on the ground, head on shoulders,
around us there is LIFE and a WONDERFUL
WORLD.
A M A N I G I U N T E , G I N O C C H I A F L E S S E : S AC R O E P R O FA N O MARINA GALICI
The photographic project “With
folded hands, flexed knees: sacred
and profane” was born in 2011 in
the land of Sicily and has remained
in progress over time. The intent and
purpose consist in recovering pho-
tographically in the most disparate
realities of the sicilian hinterland
those archaic religious myths and
rites still surviving, despite the
resizing of religion, religiosity and
traditional rituals in the advanced
capitalist society. Thus, documenting
both the changes and their unaltered
conservation in terms of costumes,
scenography, direction and actors,
but also and above all devotion,
pathos, magic and legend.
Sicily as an island, as a southern
region, undoubtedly physiologically
preserves multiple cults, idioms and
cultural signs of the different eras
and dominations that have passed
through it during the centuries, con-
siderably delaying the critical effects
of any process of globalisation, at
least in the dimension of the sacred,
still intended as a uniquely intimate
experience. The christian, pagan,
hellenic, arab, spanish, orthodox, and
medieval profile as in a kaleidoscope
of popular liturgical traditions is im-
mortalised by the sensitive eye of the
photographer, Marina Galici, who,
from the overall scene narrows the
focus on detail and physiognomonies
to capture and record the history of
the times.
MARTINO GRASSO

Six photographs have been chosen that depict children in some daily activities. These are
children not aware of being seen and for this reason in absolutely natural and sponta-
neous attitudes. They have all been photographed in Sicilian contexts, such as Bagheria,
Aspra, Cefalù or Altavilla Milicia. The choice of black and white is linked to the fact that
it returns a clean and at times poetic image.
T H E DA N I S I N N I FA R M PATRIZIA PUMO

Danisinni is a popular district on the edge of the

historic center of Palermo, a place that in recent
years has been the protagonist of a process of urban
regeneration. The Danisinni farm was founded in 2016,
initially saw the planting of the biblical garden and the
welcome of the first animal, Tobias, an Amiata donkey
that was chosen by the city as a symbol of the “festival
of honesty”. The adoption has started a process of care
and empowerment giving value to the relationship with
different animals that have gradually been hosted on the
farm. Sheep, goats, chickens, horses are the protagonists
of this space that the city offers us to live and share the
love for these wonderful creatures.
SERGIO PEREZ A F E R A ‘ O LU N I
 Catania Fair is the oldest of the city’s historic markets. Today it is held from
Monday to Saturday in the central Piazza Carlo Alberto and in the neighbo-
ring streets, but in the past it was held only on Mondays. From this derives
the traditional name “a fera ‘o luni”.
The colors, the moods, the scents, the elegance, the kitsch, together with the
strongly Arabian nature come out of the details, often overlooked at a super-
ficial glance, which within the fair blend the culture and tradition of Catania
and that of the ethnic groups which find their roots in this tradition.
U N O S P I C C H I O D I S I C I L I A ZINO CITELLI
 La Sicilia, la mia terra, è arte, colore, profumo e umanità.
Il mio viaggio fotografico passa attraverso le contaminazioni e
le contraddizioni che caratterizzano questa meravigliosa isola.
Affascinato dai suoi colori mediterranei, infatti, ho tentato di
cogliere la sua essenza e quella del suo popolo. Fotografando la
Sicilia ho cercato la poesia nelle immagini, a volte trasportando
i sogni nella realtà quotidiana di questa mia incomparabile terra
e così tra sogno e realtà ho fermato istanti di tempo che mira-
colosamente si sono trasformati in milioni di pixel.
 A M AT T E R O F A S E C O N D ALESSIO MATTIA FERRARA

This is Palermo’s oldest market in the traditional, multicultural district frequented daily by hundreds of people
of all ethnicities and religions. Historical evidence confirms that a large market existed in the southern Rabad in
the 10th century, in the very area where the Ballarò market now stands. Animated by the ‘Banniate’ ( the calls of
the vendors ) who in dialect tried to attract customers .
It is a market selling fruit, vegetables, meat and fish, but there are also household items.
This project consists of 14 images inside the old alleys of the neighbourhood
In street reportage mode without any photographic posing for a natural narration of the place
CREDITS
THE AUTHORS
ALDO PALAGONIA
Aldo Palagonia was born in the province of Palermo
in 1959. His love for photography started more than
thirty years ago along with his passions for music
and guitar.
Although, the real turning point came at the age of
50, when facing an intimate inner journey, he began
to travel to different Middle Eastern countries whose
social contexts and related scenarios increasing
his enthusiasm, changed his relationship with the
Reflex camera that became the key instrument of his
emotional communication.
From here, photography takes on a different mea-
ning through the sudden and unexpected discovery
of a human dimension toward which he discovers
an irresistible attraction. He finds himself, observing
fragments and details of life that, uncovered through
intimate motivations, lead him not only to narrative
but also to the search for a personal interpretation
through models of lightness and authenticity, beauty
and theatricality.
Aldo Palagonia has authored several photographic
exhibitions, the latest of which, February 2019, at the
International Center of Photography in Palermo, the
year in which he won the F. Scianna national compe-
tition on the city of Palermo, in the “story” section.
He is the author of the photographic book “Iranian
Beauty” , published in May 2022.
ANTONINO COSTA
Antonino Costa was born in Palermo in 1973.
Trained at the NABA - New Academy of Fine Arts
in Milan, and in New York contexts, he carries on
a personal journey in documentary photography of
the urban landscape. He has published in Corriere
della Sera, Repubblica, Doppiozero, Riga, cheFare,
L’Espresso, Cartaditalia, Perimetro.
BEATRICE INDELICATO
Beatrice Indelicato, born on 5 October 1999 in Ca-
stelvetrano. She developed a passion for photography
in her early teens and began photographing the peo-
ple and countryside of her small town in Montevago.
She graduated from the linguistic high school, she
studied film editing and film photography direction
in Palermo, city where she lives. Her photography is
mainly linked to themes related to the arid and rural
nature of Sicily and to man seen in the foreground or
background within the landscape.
DANIELE RIZZO
My passion for photography begins on the shores of
the sea, about 5 years ago by chance.
A case that slowly made sense of my time, myself
and the stories of all the people I meet,
held dear in shots worthy of story and memory.
The first thing I think when we talk about Sicily is
the sea, its scent, its colors, the richness it gives us.
GIUSI NICOLOSI
Palermitan, teacher of literature, graduate in Classical
Literature, passionate about photography.
She attended some workshops, the most interesting
the one with Eolo Perfido, Leica Akademie instruc-
tor, and with photojournalist Valerio Bispuri.
She participated in the photographic meetings at the
International Center of Photography directed by Le-
tizia Battaglia and with her she embarked on a path
that led him to the group exhibition of “Festino and
surroundings,” “Palermo Bellissima” , “Women” and
“Photographs for Ferlinghetti” at the International
Center of Photography in Palermo.
Some of his photos have been selected and
published in the Gallery of Leica Photographs
International as Master Shots.
Her favorite genre is streetphotography, but also
landscape as an inner representation. Lately she
has been taking an interest in portraiture and
self-portraiture.
In 2018 she founded and administers the FB and
Instagram page and group “Streetphotographypa-
lermo” and set up and curated the group exhibition
“Femminile Plurale” at Arvis Palermo.
www.nicolosi.it
www.instagram.com/nicgiusigram
LORELLA AIOSA
Freelance photographer, Sicilian, year 1964, univer-
sity education Faculty of Letters and Philosophies
specializing in Foreign Languages, activist and
engaged in the social sector for many years, her
school is the street, going around the streets, meeting
people and talking to them, when photographing she
is always looking for a contact, a look, the human
relationship is the basis of her photography and
is the fruit of this encounter. She deeply loves her
land, Sicily, Palermo with all its contradictions and
the Sicilian hinterland from which it comes. Photo-
graphing people in the streets of the villages, in the
middle of the countryside with its colors and with
the succession of the seasons, and always find many
small parts of themselves.
Lorella.aiosa@email.it
www.lorellaaiosa.it
https://www.facebook.com/lorella.aiosa
https://www.instagram.com/lorellaaiosa/
G I R O M A N CATO
MARINA GALICI MARTINO GRASSO
Marina Galici, born in 1965, was born in Palermo. Martino Grasso, born in Bagheria on 11 November
Since her early childhood, she has cultivated various 1962. He lives and works in Bagheria. He is a free-
intimate and creative expressions such as poetry, lance journalist and works at the Guttuso museum
drawing and painting. in Villa Cattolica in Bagheria as a tour guide. He
recently published a volume on travelers who arrived
At the age of twenty, fascinated by the synoptic in Bagheria from the eighteenth century to the twen-
potential of the photographic image in the search tieth century. He has to his credit some collective
for the self, she approached her first studies on photographic exhibitions and the exhibition “Street
photography. In the early years, she focused on the Stories” organized in December 2021 at Villa Butera,
analogue mode, later on the digital dimension. in Bagheria, with Daniele Rizzo.
Palermo, chaotic, complex, highly contrasting is its
human and environmental panorama. Street, social,
political and denunciation photography is the preemi-
nent theme of his photography. Black and white,
with the intermediate grey scales, the choice of
colour, from the inner gaze to the final photo.
marina.galici.18@gmail.com
3394874663
www.facebook.com/shoot.di.coscienza.A
www.instagram.com/marinagalici
THE AUTHORS
PATRIZIA PUMO
I was born in Palermo in 1968 in the historic center
of a family of luminaries, lights and scenographies
are immediately part of my life, leaving me with a
trace that leads me to a continuous interest in figu-
rative art, hence the choice of the State Institute of
Art as a school address. I continue with my instinct
between drawings, paintings, everyday life. Only at a
mature age do I approach photography through the
passion of my partner, a passion that I immediately
share and that I begin to feel and transmit with the
first shots and elaborations of flowers. But it is the
street that attracts me, I feel the strong call of the
scents, noises and the shouting of the people in the
alleys of the historic center of Palermo. And it is
precisely the path that led me to meet the photo-
grapher Letizia Battaglia.
Thanks to her in September 2019 I participate in
the photo contest “Il Festino and surroundings”. In
December 2020 the journey of “Palermo Bellissima”
begins again with Letizia Battaglia, a collective work-
shop in which 55 women are given the task of telling
Palermo with images that will then be collected in an
exhibition and in a book by Palermo Bellissima!
SERGIO PEREZ
Biologist loaned to the pharmaceutical bureaucracy, I
take my time for my passions, travels, reading, cinema
and of course photography. I have to my credit
a personal landscape exhibition and some group
exhibitions, including one linked to a work on the
urban area of Catania, my hometown where I still
live, which later became a volume publication.
The passion for photography after a while has mainly
directed towards a narration that focuses on urban
contexts and above all on people. This aspect, which
was always present, has grown and has become
increasingly aware in recent years, with the study and
in-depth study of authors who have made the history
of street photography.
By means of a street photography approach, I try to
tell an everyday life that is there for all to see, but that
we often don’t even notice. In most cases my vision
is sunny and ironic, other times it leads to cynicism,
always looking for the so-called decisive moment.
The street has brought some international mention
(IPA, PX3), a presence in several national and
international publications, participation in a couple
of collective exhibitions and membership into the
collective “La strada”.
ZINO CITELLI
ZINO CITELLI was born in February 1961 in Paler-
mo. He graduated in Economics. Since
he was a child he was strongly attracted by photo-
graphy and curiosity has always been a
distintive of his personality and this leads him to
observe with interest all that sur-
rounds him. He is not obsessed with a particular
photographic style and he is constantly
looking for scenes to capture. It is not difficult,
therefore, to find among his shots va-
rious subjects that are the result of his accurate
observation of the world and his move-
ments at 360 degrees. After years devoted to photo-
graphy and to learn the techniques,
he carries out this activity with passion and some of
his images are the representation
of his own soul. He has participated in photographic
competitions obtaining awards and
publications on important magazines and also
collaborating with some national newspa-
pers for some photographic projects. He completed
his studies on the treatment of digi
tal images PP, at the National School of Rome.
G I R O M A N CATO
ALESSIO MATTIA FERRARA
Born in Palermo Sicily self-taught and passionate
about photography and the history of photography
from 1900 to 1960 . I studied public and private
construction and the history of urbanisation in
European cities.
In 2012, following my studies on urbanization I
began a practical journey around Europe, photo-
graphing and experimenting with Street Photography
and Photo Reportage using the old thinking of
Straight Photography, where it was provided the limi-
tation of the use of photo editing and photographic
scheme to leave the images the purity of the original
shot. In 2017 I studied digital photography and jour-
nalistic reportage in Berlin, the following year 2018
I studied analogue photo development and printing
. In 2019 I participated in exhibitions in association
with some art collectives
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 ALDO PALAGONIA
ANTONINO COSTA
BEATRICE INDELICATO
DANIELE RIZZO
GIUSI NICOLOSI
LORELLA AIOSA
MARINA GALICI
MARTINO GRASSO
PATRIZIA PUMO
SERGIO PEREZ
ZINO CITELLI
ALESSIO MATTIA FERRARA