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Bronze 2020 Book / People

Life and Death - Mexican Rhapsody

  • Photographer
    Giuseppe Cardoni
  • Prize
    Bronze in Book / People

Praying seems to be the least worry in Mexico, where the mourning is exhibited with sounds, costumes, music, dances and colors, but also with disturbing masks and presences, making the fear and the restlessness almost familiar and friendly. Sacred and profane touch each other, just like life and death, until they become one. There are those who light candles, those who spend the whole night on the tombs eating, talking, playing, dressing up, parading in processions with carnival masks.

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.