White Souls

You can kill, you can steal, you can betray, but on Holy Friday in Sicily, all you need is a white tunic to make you "pure". Palagonia, is a small sicilian country, the Holy Week is particularly felt by its population; four confraternities passed down from father to son an ancient tradition that makes men all equal under the eyes of a dead Christ. Into the crowd you can see saints and demons, you can see innocence and guilt, the sacred and the profane. The strong sun of the noon shines the white tunics and create a strong contrast with the faces burned by the sun of the fields. In the silence you can see thousands souls speak with their eyes and their expressions... And there, in the midday sun, you hear the lament of white and black souls that slowly advancing, between shadows and lights of an old sicilian country. Palagonia 04/14/2017

Andrea Scirè is an Italian street photographer based in Treviso. Sicilian by origin, he founded fotostreet.it, recognised among the 45 most recommended street photography blogs worldwide. His work has been internationally awarded at PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris (Gold 2017), IPA New York (Second Prize 2017), and TIFA Tokyo (Silver 2019), among others. He approaches street photography not as a genre but as a way of seeing and inhabiting the world — a practice that crosses documentary, portraiture, and human observation. His series have been exhibited internationally.