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Street Shooters of April 2023

In the Flash with Dina Litovsky

Around Angelus

Uncivil War

Seelampur: India’s E-Waste Graveyard

Six Workshops

Does Film Still Cut It on the Streets?

Around Angelus

Paolo Ricca

Around the streets of the Angelus, adults and children let themselves be seduced by the Poetry of Everyday Life.

The strangest things happen around the streets of Angelus. Men and women, young and old, of all ethnic groups and ages, all hurry to reach the place where the religious event – the Noon Angelus – will take place, in thanksgiving for the mystery of the Incarnation. 

There is no better time to remember that you are a Christian. Every person, whether they are a tourist who passed there by chance or an enthusiastic believer, gets carried away by the sounds and sensations of the atmosphere.

The energy is palpable. It fills the air and intoxicates passers-by, making them more docile and more meek. The light is warm, enveloping. Everything seems to be perfect, created ad hoc for the occasion. It is a day of celebration and, regardless of one’s knowledge of religions and local customs, the most important moment is not the event itself but rather what happens around it, the instants that precede it and define it in that unique atmosphere.

This is why, in homage to childhood memories, I returned to the same streets I walked with my family years before to visit St. Peter’s Square and listen to the Angelus, the Catholic prayer that devotees recite every Sunday in thanksgiving for the mystery of the incarnation.

The series, entitled ‘The Poetry of Everyday Life’, evokes an alien dimension found within a bubble, a protected and alternative environment in which everything, even the most banal, takes on a different connotation from normal. The faces of the subjects framed on the streets of the Angelus express the serenity that accompanies the Angelus, ad sometimes the extravagant representation of it all as well.

In this feast for the eyes, people move excitedly in a preserved space that becomes a small oasis within the chaos of the city. The camera goes unnoticed, because there, in that idyllic dimension, everything seems to be allowed. Screams and noises are the background to a potpourri of visual experiences, moments ready to be captured and told.

Around Angelus evokes the sensations of a special day, the memory of a magical and timeless atmosphere. Fragments of a past and future in which the protagonists, far from being contemporary citizens or time travelers, are the main actors of this eternal story: a continuous seduction, which tastes like a story and a spiritual journey to which no one, not even the strongest, can resist. Around the streets of the Angelus, adults and children let themselves be seduced by the poetry of everyday life.

Paolo Ricca

Born in Rome in 1977, Paolo Ricca is a freelance photographer based in Italy. He graduated in advertising graphics and later breathed the atmosphere of inks working in old typography in the capital; this is how he deepens the use of the color that he chooses for the realization of his projects. Today, through images, he loves to tell stories and fragments of everyday life thanks to very intimate shots that cancel the distance between subject and observer. His pictures aim to take on a documentary and at the same time artistic value. He love the feeling of primary colors, raw, honest and often even poetic. This approach allows him to express the authentic dignity of the subjects, the real authors of his images.

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April 2023

Street Shooters of April 2023

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In the Flash with Dina Litovsky

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Around Angelus

Paolo Ricca captures people seduced by the poetry of everyday life.

Uncivil War

Lodiza LePore pays tribute to ordinary people fighting against the powers that be.

Seelampur: India’s E-Waste Graveyard

Ribhu Chatterjee takes us to an illegal wasteland that is vital to India's economy.

Six Workshops

Carey Winfrey shares lessons from six photography workshops taken over the course of six decades.

Does Film Still Cut It on the Streets?

Take a closer look at the merits and pitfalls of street photography with film cameras with Andrew Walmsley.

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