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PARTANNA, CLICK THE MEMORY OF YESTERDAY

Seniors' Club in the Hunters Partanna, the agricultural center in Trapani in the Belice Valley. posted by Sicilian reportage Photographs were taken by Francis Cusenza, a young photojournalist partannese. "My photographs are to maintain the memory of a local company where there are more young people: Today, the risk is to miss the future identity of the country "

era of compact cameras or digital SLR with a myriad of functions, there are young photographers still love to use that in Sicily and reflex mechanical negatives in black and white: tools now obsolete, but capable - just for the truly amateur approach imposed by their use - to capture the soul of the subjects represented.

With this approach, the 24 year old Francis Cusenza - majoring in Literature at Trent, resident in the province of Bergamo for a couple of years, photographer for the non-profit 'Shoot4Change' - is back in his Partanna for a photo report from the people and places in the center of Trapani Belice.

Cusenza's photographs are the result of a sentimental dedication and technique that also crosses the door of the darkroom, where the prints are just the finished product images are carefully planned by the author.

"Every time I come Partanna - says Francesco Cusenza - I realize that the youth of the country is disappearing, for work or study; I can not find a friend in the meantime, an immigrant like me, away from Sicily, and I closed the bar or the restaurant that was one of our meeting place. Partanna is becoming a country of old people: with the disappearance of the boys the country risks losing its identity, and that is why photography is a means of preserving the memory of its people, its culture. "

"Every time I come Partanna, I realize that the youth of the country is disappearing, for work or study, I can not find a friend in the meantime, an immigrant like me away from Sicily, and I closed the bar or the local that was one of our meeting place ... "

In reportage Cusenza - posted by Sicilian reportage photographs were taken between September and December of 2010 - the elderly Partanna tell then the reality of a society belicina that are endangered because of the impossibility to ensure an economic future for its youth today, as in years before and after the earthquake of 1968.

E 'this socially disoriented in some way that exemplified dall'antefatto preceded the release of the first of the photos posted. "I joined the club in the Hunters - Francis Cusenza remember - and I have noticed that the five seniors who were sleeping on the couch. Out loud, I've woken up. I told them to settle down because I wanted to photograph them, they have placed the caps on their heads and left them without protest framed ... "

In other shots , Cusenza reveals his attention to old objects of daily use wicker baskets, copper pots or glass bottles.

In these photographs there is no trace of complacency folklore, but rather, the perception of an everyday reality yet linked to customs of a past that is together the wealth and poverty of much of Sicily today.

Architecture Partanna. Cusenza Francesco's photographs have been performed again with negative film and printed by the author between September and December of 2010