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Sept 2015 back issue
by Mauro D’Agati
Mauro D’Agati met Marzia on a beach near Palermo in 2007 and began
taking pictures of her and her family during their summer vacation. The
unexpected ease of interaction between photographer and subject
encouraged D’Agati to undertake a series depicting Marzia’s transition from
childhood into adolescence, with the ambition of spending several days with
her family every year.
The resulting five volumes of this publication show the family over a period
of about five years: their summer vacations on an illegal camping lot in the
industrial area of Termini Imerese, the celebration of Marzia’s and her
brother Claudio’s First Communion, family reunions with abundant food and
games, and the curiosities and family portraits at nonna’s house in
Palermo’s deprived Zen 2 district. Throughout this close photographic
chronicle, Marzia represents the epitome of the anti-model, defying
prefabricated aesthetic standards while candidly emanating joy and self-
confidence.
