Simone Tramonte
Su Carrasecare (Series)
DESCRIPTION
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.
AUTHOR
Simone Tramonte was born in Rome in 1976 and after graduating in Economics he decided to devote his attention to photography. He is a freelance photographer that works and is mainly 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.
His projects have been published in international magazines such as Internazionale, NationalGeographic, Geo, Indipendent, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Southeast Asia Globe, CameraRaw, TheTripMagazine, Sguardi.
This works has been exhibited at Fotoleggendo in Rome, at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, at the ArtBasel of Basel, at the Kolga Tbilisi Festival of Georgia.
He has been awarded some international prizes:
1st prize "Geo Magazine" - 2013
1st prize "UBS Art Collection" – 2011
2nd prize "Science-Environment” category – MIFA - 2016
2nd prize "Editorial-Environmental” category – IPOTY – 2016
2nd prize "People-Culture” category – MIFA - 2015
2nd prize "Press-Environmental” category – PX3 – 2015
3rd prize – FIIPA (FIOF Awards) – 2016
Remarkable Award – Siena International Photo Awards – 2015
Shortlisted – KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO AWARDS – 2016
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