“An impossible story which has the merit of being true”
(Paolo Mauri - La Repubblica)
The
Mediterranean has always been a sea that, rather than dividing people, has
brought them closer. It has been a bridge between nations of different
religions, cultures and languages, inviting – and sometimes forcing – them to
interact, for better or worse but always, at the end, getting them to know each
other.
The
stage of thousands of years of history, which, in an era in which the South of
the World is becoming more and more fluid, changing and itself cause of
changes, opens up to a future marked by quick and deep transformations.
Pictures
which try to tell, with a style far from most current ones, the multicultural
heart of a such a special area.Images which are all together necessary, like
the single tiles of a mosaic, to the total composition; images which capture
the essence, the soul free from divisions stemming from political, ethnical and
religious categorizations which links, like an invisible underground web, the
Mediterranean People.
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Publication valid for the Pulitzer Prizes
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Copyright photos by Giacomo Palermo
Editing photos by Marco Pinna from National Geographic Italy
