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The "Corsa Dei Ceri" (Ceri Race)

  • Photographer
    Giuseppe Cardoni
  • Prize
    Bronze in Events / Other

The "Corsa dei Ceri" (Ceri Race) is one of the oldest Italian rite celebration. For many centuries, it has lived every year on May 15 in Gubbio (Perugia) and still has a fundamental role for the community of Gubbio. A ritual that is lived every year thanks to a multitude of faces, looks, gestures, voices and passions. The ritual is consumed in an irrepressible explosion of faith and civic identity passion.

Lives in Umbria,Italy. Engineer. His main interest has been B/W reportage. He coauthored, with the RAI journalist Luca Cardinalini, the book “STTL La terra ti sia lieve”. With L. Loretoni, he published in 2008 “Miserere”, in 2011 “Gubbio, I Ceri” and in 2014 “Kovilj”, also in 2014 he has published "Boxing Notes". In 2019 “Jazz Notes”,in 2020 he published “Vita e Morte - Rapsodia Messicana” and in 2021 “Passion for Sport”;in 2023 "In and out of the ring"and "Metropolitan Fragments". He has been awarded or has been a finalist in many national and international competitions.