Traditions, ash or fire?

"Traditions are the safeguard of fire, not adoration of ash." (Gustav Mahler). A struggle between tradition and contemporaneity, between past and present. In this series there are people during religious processions in Sardinia, an island of Italy: women and men suspended between past, present and future, rooted in millenarian traditions made of gestures, rhythms, music, dances and gazes. Young people and children wearing forefather clothing, with the consciousness of being part of a long path that wants to affirm its future: there is no future without a past. The photographic work has been performed in black and white in order to focus the attention on the expression, not being distracted by the sometimes superficial and strange emotion of color.