Project Detail: CIRCUS: A noi ci bagna la pioggia e ci asciuga il vento

Contest:

Emerging photographers 2018



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Luca Santini

Status:
Finalist

 

Project Info

CIRCUS: A noi ci bagna la pioggia e ci asciuga il vento

Never as now the “Chapiteau” of the circus been exposed to storms that can destroy it along with its history.

Last November, in fact, the law was passed that provides for the gradual overcoming of the presence of animals in circuses.

As the mother of one of the circus artists told to me in a conversation: "THE CIRCUS IS DYING BECAUSE THEY ARE KILLING US”. In her eyes there is however a fire that burns with passion. Passion that is handed down from generation to generation for their little magical world made of mobile homes, bright clothes and exotic animals, where time seems to have stopped. I was welcomed by a community of people extremely proud of what they do and of the traditions they carry out with difficulty. And this allowed me to get closer to their culture, a bearer of smiles and joy, but also made up of situations of increasing solitude and difficulty.

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