ANATOMY SICILIAN 

ethical book by Giacomo Palermo

Available for purchase in all Amazon platforms internationally and in the following link: 

https://a.co/d/6cHclyX 

Book introduction by Gaetano Savatteri author of the successful television series Màkari. 

Sicilian Anatomy is fundamental in the island collective imagination based essentially by the "Mediterranean multicultural dichotomy" where the ethical lifestyle (and therefore creative and with cosmopolitan ingenuity) is contrasted with the vulgarity that sometimes degenerates into the presumption of being superior to the "Court of Justice". That is why in Sicily we say "Every Head is a Court".  In this long-term project "empirical Sicilian visionary documentary" composed of stories from true stories and a photoreportage of more than one hundred color images made in spots all over Sicily characters such as Letizia Battaglia, Brother Biagio Conte, Stefano Malatesta, Andrea Camilleri, and a young photojournalist named Jimmy, using the techniques of "ethical photojournalism" where flora, fauna, anthropological ethnic identities, and the five elements of "Nature" (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether) interact in a "multiethnic millenarian pathos" typical of a quirky and singular manifesto of Sicilianity. 

According to Sicilian Gaetano Savatteri (author of the hit television series Màkari) it is precisely for this implicit works Giacomo Palermo with his photos.

The island capital of the Mafia (and therefore of the anti-Mafia), has delivered to the collective imagination the murdered dead photographed by Letizia Battaglia, the figures of civil heroes such as Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, portraits of children in slums, close-ups of Mafia bosses, repentant or not, immortalized at the moment of their arrest or in a courtroom. 

Sicilian visionary photojournalist Giacomo Palermo reverses the gloomy reputation that makes Sicily a place where conflict and violence work under the radar, even today when mafia machine guns no longer crackle in the streets, but other types of violence -- urban, youth or family violence -- mark the always difficult days of a South that wakes up every day and has to deal with the shortages, deficits, delays and needs that make up the fragile backbone of cities "without": without services, without jobs, without rights and without many other things. 

The book "ANATOMY SICILIAN" inside is finely printed in color with premium glossy coated paper and glossy hardcover in color "Hardcover" (for lovers and connoisseurs of photography) sold and distributed in all e-commerce platforms and international partners of AMAZON Global Store. 

Sicily is a naturally photogenic island of the world. The characteristics of Sicilianity and identity are reflected in the colours, contradictions, jarring and choreography in a mixture of values and meanings that contribute weight and poignancy in the empathetic search for socio-humanitarian documentation through photo-reporting. Sicilian writer, poet and aphorist Prof. Gesualdo Bufalino declares: 'Many Sicilies, Why? Because Sicily has had the good fortune to find itself acting as a hinge over the centuries between the great western culture and the temptations of the desert and the sun, between reason and magic, the temperaments of sentiment and the canicule of passion. It suffers, Sicily, from an excess of identity, I do not know whether this is good or bad. Certainly, for those born there, the joy of feeling seated on the Navel of the World is short-lived and the suffering of not knowing how to untangle the thread of one's destiny among a thousand curves and twists of blood soon takes over'. According to Marco Pinna (Photo Editor of National Geographic Italy), this project by Giacomo Palermo uses an unconventional and ethical visual language, thus succeeding in capturing 'the essence and soul of Sicilianity' in a simple and direct manner through the sensations of a millenary lifestyle rich in 'Humanity and Hospitality'.