honorable mention
Simone Tramonte italy
title
Su Carrasecare
To experience Carnival in Sardinia is a unique and emotion-filled experience.
Here we find an age-old ritual relating to the idea of death and rebirth, propitiatory dances and the Dionysus cult. What lives on today is the gestural expressiveness, the rhythm and the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations disguised as goats, bulls, stags and wild boars.
On the island, people use the word Carrasecare (carra-de-secare), instead of Carnival. Etymologically, the word means ‘to dismember living flesh’, this is linked to the fact that, Carnival is intended as an event of death, which then leads to a rebirth following the continuous cycle of life.
To observe their gestural expressiveness, their dances and animal skin costumes is like being encircled by the historical memory of these lands which each village preserves in a unique way.
He began photographic studies with particular attention to social and anthropological issues.
Involved in documentary photography since the 2007, his work is focused to documenting contemporary issues and the profound cultural changes.
Simone's work has appeared in some publications, including cui Internazionale, National Geographic, Geo, Southeast Asia Globe, Indipendent, Sguardi, The Australian, The Guardian, InsideArt, The Telegraph, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine.
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entry description
ITALY - SardiniaTo experience Carnival in Sardinia is a unique and emotion-filled experience.
Here we find an age-old ritual relating to the idea of death and rebirth, propitiatory dances and the Dionysus cult. What lives on today is the gestural expressiveness, the rhythm and the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations disguised as goats, bulls, stags and wild boars.
On the island, people use the word Carrasecare (carra-de-secare), instead of Carnival. Etymologically, the word means ‘to dismember living flesh’, this is linked to the fact that, Carnival is intended as an event of death, which then leads to a rebirth following the continuous cycle of life.
To observe their gestural expressiveness, their dances and animal skin costumes is like being encircled by the historical memory of these lands which each village preserves in a unique way.
about the photographer
Simone Tramonte is a freelance photojournalist, based in Italy.He began photographic studies with particular attention to social and anthropological issues.
Involved in documentary photography since the 2007, his work is focused to documenting contemporary issues and the profound cultural changes.
Simone's work has appeared in some publications, including cui Internazionale, National Geographic, Geo, Southeast Asia Globe, Indipendent, Sguardi, The Australian, The Guardian, InsideArt, The Telegraph, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine.
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