ENTRY DESCRIPTION
he procession of Mysteries in Trapani is an ancient sacred representation about Passion of Christ. It happens every year on Good Friday and lastes 24 hours. It continuos the medieval custom to perform biblical events especially in Spain.

For example in Sevilla there were "The teatros de los Misterios". The diffusion of this sacred representation was supported by the commercial and cultural exchanges between Spain and cities-ports like Genoa and Sicily so the Mysteries became real processions.

The Mysteries of Trapani are the recalling of funeral events and you must go back to death's cult in Greece ( Eleusini Mysteries), Demetra and her daughter Persefone's myth, that symbologized the fertility, the renaissance and the funeral rites.


After a tour among city's street by night, the Procession come back to the Purgatory Church where the exausted bearers give themselves up to tears and emotion. It is the most touching and meaningful moment of entire representation. The church becomes a stage of a very intense performance made from and for men, the real axis of performance. Infact men are the bearers and men are the leaders of each group. The women aren't the direct protagonists of Simbolical that the procession shows and expresses. Another time, in the past like nowadays, the elements of the cycle birth-death or the earth's fertility have always been mediated by man. Man who gives himself up transforming and puryfing himself.

AUTHOR
My name is Linda de' Nobili and I live and work in Rome.
I deal with social documentary photography to highlight the cultural and/or social features of places, communities and people I get in touch with.
I've improved myself with specialization courses at the Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia Adams and at the Scuola Permanente di Fotografia Graffiti in Rome.
To me photography is a necessity, a need and not a mere proof of concept. It's the desire to record and tell through pictures all aspects of reality. Sometimes the photography can be a means of examination and social outcry.
My photo features express the desire to write stories and life through pictures of the people I meet. The primary intention is to communicate that diversity is a specific resource to appraise with the contribution that everyone can give to community where he lives.
Stylistically, I often use the wide-angle lens, also for close-up, because my first desire is to create a "penetrating gaze" towards the main character of the story, his essence. The wide-angle lens loses his narrative meaning of description of contexts and permits an intimate style with an interior dialogue between a photographer and the portrayed subject.

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