At the age of 18, I had to leave Sicily to look for work elsewhere. But, over time, I realised that this land had never left me. Very early on I felt the burning need to go back there, and every time I had the chance I did so. Starting in the late 1980s, I… Continue reading
Ventimiglia is frontier and transit city, domestic and never wild far west, it is instead very civilized since the most antique times as a last Riviera Ligure’s offcut before Costa Azzurra. Armando Rotoletti’s camera eye reveals a surprisingly beauty that invites you to stay and discover its secrets. Nothing is better than putting on the… Continue reading
After 156 days of shooting; 7000 km crossing Sicily coast to coast, east to west and north to south; 256 emails sent to municipalities requesting to free the squares of cars and catering equipment that would upset their appearance; Armando Rotoletti, renowned portrait and reportage photographer from Messina, offers to us in this book 82… Continue reading
Expressing through pictures the beauty of a landscape as spectacular as the one shaped by Mt. Etna isn’t difficult, because each slant is almost naturally predisposed to being immortalized. Rather less easy was finding a common thread that would describe the bind between this harsh land and its inhabitants.What still keeps together this community at… Continue reading