portrait stories, black and white portrait photo essays



			SAINTE MARIE PEOPLE Sainte Marie is one of the little islands that surround Madagascar, recently discovered by tourism, but still out of the main holiday streams. The majority of its 16.000 inhabitants still live following ancient and natural rhythms and habits: the same ones that were followed when the island was a pirate base. Sainte Marie people live in huts, fish and cultivate land as it was done ages ago, wake up and go to sleep with the sun. [black and white aand colour images]


			THE OTHER FACES OF CUBA A series of portraits to talk about the people; faces of workers, of common people, met in the streets, in the country, in front of their houses. Thought images, never stolen, in order to be able to have their eyes straight in the camera, that glance that often tells more about someone than attitude, dresses and environment. A different Cuba, a sort of an everyday Cuba, so easy to be met, when leaving the tourists tracks, sometimes so easy to reach that it is enough to turn a corner to pass from stereotype to reality! [black and white aand colour images]


			KUSTURICA’S GIPSIES Bosnian director Emir Kusturica was born in Sarajevo, and has spent his childhood on Gorica hill, also called Crnj Vrh: black hill, a gipsies’ residence for more than two centuries. He has got inspiration from the Roms for many of his more famous films such as “Gipsies’ Times”, “Black Cat, White Cat”, and his last “Super 8 Stories by Emir Kusturica”, which represent the reality of the farcical magic of Balcanic troubled world. Who are Kusturica’s Gipsies? They are Sarajevo Roms who, more than 200 years ago, settled on Gorica hill ... [black and white aand colour images]