ENTRY DESCRIPTION
“This long-term personal project, started in 2014, is still going in the Western Cape, mainly in the“ Terroirs ”of the Huguenot Valley. Here the workforce, albeit led by experts mainly of distant or recent European origin, is made up of black Africans, coming from various parts of Africa, not only from the Western Cape.
The harvesters are recruited from intermediaries who usually do not collect but merely check.
Most harvesters are young women, who sometimes arrive with elegance and sensuality. My love for "mother earth" is well married with the female presence.
I found in them a sense of aggregation and belonging to a community, rather than an attachment to the territory.
Over the past three years, the arrival of workers from Malawi has sparked a wave of cheer that was lacking in the Western Cape.
So what is my project for? He wants to represent with a touch of poetry and love the temporary union of mother earth with the strength and characters of this people, especially the women, thrown into these vast "terroirs", without any specific link or knowledge of the sector: the representation of a fable or a pagan rite, but also their resilience and humanity.

AUTHOR
Giuseppe Potente was born in Italy in 1950. He followed classical studies in Rome, where he graduated in 1974 in MD.
Specializing in medical imaging in 1978, he has been interested since the 70s, simultaneously with technical imaging, artistic imaging, in particular the humanistic current of HCB. At the beginning of the 1980s he also "discovered" and loved the color photography of Ernst Haas, Luigi Ghirri and Franco Fontana, which somehow remain in his training and can influence his photographic vision.
In Italy, he lives in Rome and in the tuscan countryside.
Since 2010 he has left the University of Rome and works as a free lance photographer based in Italy and South Africa on personal projects, awarded.
He joined in 2019 the Magazine online Camerapixo.

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