A fisherman repairs the fishing net at Cape Coast, in Ghana
Swordfish thrown on the shore, in Bejin, on return from fishing , Ghana
A fisherman rests. Fantastic alcove! I’m at the Cape Coast, Ghana. I follow the fishermen in their daily lives
I was crossing a bridge over the Volta lake, Ghana. I see boats, I stop and a young man looks at me
The novel of my life is made up of a multiplicity of experiences, people-to-people contacts, stories. Photography has always accompanied me
Fishermen in the Volta Lake, Ghana
I walk in a street. Bejin, Ghana. I am attracted by the color of the house; I stop. A woman is sweeping, a boy looks at me and a table stands and challenges the force of gravity
Beautiful Himba women, near Opuwo in Namibia
Himba women take great care of body and hair
Tutto scivola tra le dita. Tutto ciò che cerchiamo di cogliere si dissolve. Tutto svanisce come nebbia e sogni … (H. Von Hofmannsthal, Il Cavaliere della rosa, atto I, Musica di Strauss)Tuareg tent, near Tamanrasset, South Algeria, 1985Two women go to visit a young woman who is about to marry; I arrived in Chenini, a Berber troglodyte village in the district of Tataouine in southern Tunisia, 2009A scarecrow child, guarding the sorghum, Ethiopia. I did not believe what I was watching. But when my guide explained to me that many children are used not only to bring animals to pasture, but to hunt birds and for hours remain on these “nests”,I decided that I should continue to take care of the rights denied to children; 1998Seller of arrows. Near the village of Bolgatanga in northern Ghana on the border with Burkina Faso; Ghana 2008Near San Ignacio, in the south of Cuba, the corn is lying on asphalt for drying
A boy works in a textile factory in Gujarat. As I pass to observe the moulds that create the extraordinary arabesques of silk, he turns and our looks meet
The Sahara Desert, Merzouga, Morocco.Lalibela, a passage through the Coptic churches carved into the rock; Ethiopia, 1997A Sufi ceremony in Kebili, southern Tunisia 2009
A little girl sells bread on the street, Bejin Ghana, 2008
Village of El Molo tribes near Turkana Lake: fish to dry; 1990
A woman has put the fish on the sand to dry. Meanwhile she keeps watch; Ghana 2008In the village of Bejin at dawn the fishermen return and unload part of the catch on the shore; Ghana 2010A fisherman cuts the heads and fins of sharks caught in the islands of the Sea of Cortez Baja California; 1992A fisherman in the Victoria lake throws his net; Kenya, 2007A fisherman in Bosomtwe lake in Ghana throws his net; 2008My guide through the rivers of the Amazon forest shows me a newly caught piranha, Brasil, 1991Women sell bananas along the way; Guatemala, 1988Young woman sells her last banana along the way near the Nakuru lake, Kenya, 1996
The collection of manure is a daily activity. Indians make it dry in the sun. It will serve as fuel. The elegance of Indian women leaves me astonished
In Zanzibar, Tanzania, a woman grinds cornI was crossing a barren area in Morocco; this green field is an exception and demonstrates man’s ability to exploit many areas to make them cultivable. But the most exceptional moment is given by the passing of a woman.Young woman sells typical colorful fabrics at Bahir Dar market, Ethiopia, 1997A beautiful woman sells dried fish along the road leading to the painted village of Bolgatanga, Ghana 2008Area of the Accra market. The market is a real maze, full of people who buy and sell; Ghana 2008A young woman waits for the fishermen; in those large basins she will put the catch to bring it to the market; Bejin, Ghana 2010A woman is returning to the village. She has a load of wood on her back that forces her to walk remaining folded in half; Lalibela, Ethiopia 1998Himba women inside a hut. Near Opowo Namibia; 2013
I walked, on invitation, into a Himba hut. The woman welcomed me with an intense look.
Himba women take great care of body
woman of the Konso tribe returns at sunset to her village with a load of wood on her back. I stop the jeep on the side of the road, I see her: she smiles at me; Southern Ethiopia, 1997
Konso man returns to the village at sunset. Ethiopia, 1997
A young man from the Mursi tribe; Southern Ethiopia, 1997
The road is one of my favorite places. Life flows in the street. Women, many women. I took the photo on the left in Orgosolo a small village in the center of Sardinia (1998). The other in Harare in Ethiopia; 1998
A woman holds her little child in her chest. Her hands hold him, she protects him, India 2007
A beautiful woman attracts my attention. She is sitting on a black and white staircase. She covers her face with hands finely decorated with henna; Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 2009
This young indian woman is so beautiful and elegant that we just need the half of her face and her painted hand to empathize with her; during Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, India 2007
The power of flamenco is well represented by the movements and intensity of the look of this dancer, Seville, Spain 2008
Daily life in Ghana, 2008
The photo on the left portrays a little girl in her small home in Lalibela, Ethiopia (1997) with the typical Shema, traditional Ethiopian fabric made of cotton, wrapped around the head; the shot on the right shows a moment of life close to Matmata (Tunisia, 2008) by with a woman who lights the fire to prepare dinner and her child faces the hutA family participates in the Kumbh Mela of Allahabad. In the evening they meet under the tent that they have built and prepare dinner, India 2007A woman talks to her husband. Their house is located on the track that goes down in the Barranca del Cobre from Batopilas. Northern Mexico, 1992
The fastest traveller is the one who walks. (H.D. Thoreau)
Allahabad, India during Kumbh Mela, 2010I remember well the situation in which I took many photographs of these “fisherwomen” in one of the ponds along the zambesi River. Each holding a large basket and pushing it to form a semicircle. They fished small fish to be dried. Zambia, 1994
This photo could tell you a lot of things. This woman does a very special job. In Palitana, India, many people ask the porters to be taken to the hill of Shatrunjaya where there are jain temples. This young woman is a carrier. She works with three other women. Their sedan-chair is supported by two powerful bamboo canes, resting on their shoulders. At this moment, the young woman is resting; 2010An Hamar woman on a track to Mago Park, in the valley of the Omo River; Ethiopia 1997A Maasai woman approaches my jeep. She was waiting for a ride on the side of the Ngiro-are road; Kenya 1996Nzulezo, village on stilts in southwestern Ghana. A woman prepares food; 2008The huge market of Kumasi, crossroads of West Africa; Ghana 2007Market in Santa Cruz; Guatemala, 1988A band in a village between Quetzaltenango and Santa Cruz La Laguna; Guatemala, 1988Why wait for another bus ride? Ghana 2008
Ghana 2008 On the road from Tamalè to Yendi
Two women in Erfoud; Morocco, 2015Ghana, in front of Elmina; 2010
Fishing boats stop on the beach of Cape Coast; Ghana 2008
Fishing boat; Bejin Ghana 2008
El Jadida, Morocco, 2008
Craft trimaran with mast and a sail built with jute pieces sewn together and…ripped; East Zanzibar, 1990Topolobampo, Mexico, 1992
A Mursi woman with the typical labial ornaments, Omo River, Ethiopia, 1997
Night market in Harare, Ethiopia. A woman sheds light on the products she sells; 1998Procession during the Timkat, religious celebration of the Orthodox Epiphany; Lalibela, Ethiopia 2008
These two beautiful Indian women wrapped in their colored saris show us two typical characteristics of the Hindu religion: the red stripe along the hairstyle, with sindur, a traditional dough made with a red cosmetic powder and the tilaka between the eyebrows, which is believed to have a healing and protective function; Allahabad, during Kumbh Mela, 2007A little girl painted herself blue. She wants to represent Shiva. She collects offering from passers-by. I’m in Allahabad, India during the Khumb MelaThe monastery of Debre Damo, in the region of Tigris, can be reached by climbing a rope of goat skins, helped by a monk who pulls upwards. The rope symbolizes the serpent that would have helped one of the nine saints who evangelized Ethiopia to climb so high and found the monastery. The access is only for men; Ethiopia 2006
A man bathes in the sacred waters in the golden temple of Amritsar, India
Sacred Ganges, The Silence of Spirituality
These four men belong to different religions; they are praying. Starting from the photograph on the top left we see an Ethiopian monk in Lalibela, 1997; next we observe the concentration in the prayer of an Indian man in Matura, India, 2007; a sick in the gold temple of Amritsar in India with the headdress showing the symbols of Sikism, 2010; on the lower right, a monk in Lalibela reading a book of sacred scripture at the entrance of a church, 1998.Lalibela, Timkat, 2008
A priest in a Coptic church reads the sacred scriptures by lighting with a candle, 2006During the Timkat celebrations, large tents are set up in Lalibela. In the evening priests and faithful gather to pray and dance to the sound of the drums, Ethiopia, 2008
A man on the donkey crosses the street in the market of Ghardaia, Algeria, 1985
Mario, 99 years old in a street in Havana Vieja, Cuba, 2016
Young married couples in Ouro Preto, Brazil, 1991
a man facing the window of his house. The house is located on the track that goes down in the Barranca del Cobre from Batopilas. Northern Mexico, 1992
A man paints his house, Batopilas. Northern Mexico, 1992
A Masai man with the typical red fabric, Kenya on the road, 1996
Bejin, Ghana, 2010
An Horseman rests in front of his house, Kolkata, India, 2010
Fishermen during a break from work, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2010An old man reads a newspaper. IndiaA man has on his shoulders the plowshare that will serve him to plow the earth with the help of oxen, Tigrai region, Ethiopia, 1998Peasants make grooves in the ground with a hand plough, on the road to Trinidad, Cuba. 2016
Santa Cruz, Guatemala, 1988
Women waiting for tourists at the train stops along the railway that joins Chihuahua to Topolobampo, Mexico, 1992
A little girl is sitting on the doorstep of her house located on the track that goes down in the Barranca del Cobre from Batopilas. Northern Mexico, 1992Two children in Santa Cruz, Guatemala, 1988
In the Amazon forest a child has a sloth for friend, Brazil, 1991
A child holds a chicken. He’s trying to sell it, near Lake Tana, Ethiopia, 1997
In the Amazon forest there are many villages on stilts. Children learn very early to move independently with their boats; Brazil, 1991A child crosses Lake Chamo in Ethiopia with his raft; 1997Zambesi river at dawn; Namibia 2013
Two Borana men return to their village at dusk, on te left; southern Ethiopia; 1997Dear friends. This is Dancalia, an extremely arid land where temperatures reach 50 degrees. These girls every day dig holes in the river bed completely dried up to find water. This photograph is part of my climate project. This photograph must remind everyone that water is an indispensable right. Ethiopia 2007It is not difficult to understand what these women and children are doing. Miles of road to get to a well to fetch water to bring to the village. Plastic canisters are an achievement. What they ask me is to have “plastic cans”Three women go to the well to get water. But a sandstorm is starting, Merzouga, Maroc, 2008A woman walks a street in the city of Timimoun full of sand. The city is the capital of the Gourara region. Timimoun is famous for the color of its red ochre buildings; Algeria, 1989Processing of sugar cane, India; 2007A young man is stoking the fire that allows the firing of bricks, Tozeur, Tunisia; 2009
Handmade wool socks are used by marble quarry quarrymen. When they return home they hang them on the wall, ’90s
Miners in gold mines in Poconé, Brazil, 1991
Here we are in the marble quarries of Carrara. I had many friends thanks to my wife who was born to the amber of those extraordinary mountains, that are the Apuan Alps. In his little car my friend Romolo had put a marble block, in one piece. At home he would have dug it inside to transform it into a basin in which to put the lard for seasoning; Massa-Carrara, Tuscany ’90s
Two quarrymen work in Carrara marble quarries; Tuscany ’90s
Sometimes the marble is taken from tunnels built in the interior of the Apuan Alps. When I first entered this gallery accompanied by the owners it seemed to me to enter a cathedral; Massa Carrara, Tuscany, ’90sThe tanneries of Fez, Maroc, 2008
Delhi, India; Food on the road, 2007
Messico, Food on the road, 1988
Market in Accra, Ghana, 2008Market in San Christobal, Southern Mexico, 1988
A woman is entering a courtyard overlooked by several houses. This photograph was chosen by the writer Antonio Tabucchi for the Greek edition of the book Notturno Indiano; Shrinagar, India, 2010
Barber shop, Kolkata, India, 2010
Vaquero (cowboy) in the Sonora Desert, Northern Mexico, My wife crouched while filming some details of the salt lake, my daughters in the Makgadikgadi Pan, BotswanaTowards the descent to the burning ghat Varanasi, India, 2007
Man’s Last Journey; burning ghat Varanasi, India, 2007
