Expositions
Documenting the collective dimension of religiosity and showing through flash, colour and movement the imaginary dialogues between the crowd and religious authorities is the theme of this exhibition by the photographer Andrea Pacanowski. The artist presents the most significant images of his personal research journey dedicated to moments of intense religiosity and rituality in Jerusalem, Rome and North Africa during the Ramadan, with the intent to show - as the author says - "... what is left outside of the individual experience of faith and becomes a community ritual, encounter, mass experience."
Andrea Pacanowski has worked both in Italy and abroad and is a popular fashion and advertising photographer, working with major national and international magazines.
"Io amo l'Italia!" (I love Italy!) was a phrase that the New York-based photographer liked to say after his first visit to our country in 1956. His was not a "canonical" interest: although he was a lover of art, landscapes, monuments and ruins, what most fascinated him was "Italian spirit", which he pursued with his camera from Little Italy, with street vendors, children's games and typical marriages, to the everyday life of his beloved Naples and Rome. The one hundred black and white prints - shown here for the first time – are carefully selected among the thousands of negatives that Freed took while travelling the peninsula until 2006 - the year of his death – and give a poetical account of the social, cultural and psychological features of the Italians.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali of Rome, in collaboration with the Agenzia Contrasto and the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. World Press Photo Prize is one of the most important awards in the photographic-journalism field. Every year for 54 years, an independent jury, composed of international experts, is asked to choose among thousands of photographs, sent to the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam by photojournalists, agencies, newspapers and magazines. This is an opportunity to see the most beautiful and representative pictures of the year, that have accompanied, documented and illustrated the events of our time in newspapers around the world.