Giambattista Pace Photography

Syria

docpeace — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:20:35 +0000

A trip through Syria before the uprising against Assad’s administration.

Damascus

docpeace — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:58:27 +0000

Images of daily life in the capital of Syria.

Lebanon

docpeace — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:29:01 +0000

This story was published on the #1 issue of AARGH magazine. To see the tearsheet please click here.

The Ball of the Others

docpeace — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:39:47 +0000

One of Austria’s Event Highlights is for sure the Opera Ball where the rich and the famous, the upper-class people gathers to be seen and to show off their social status with as much glamour and glitter as possible. That The Opera Ball has a couple of alternative events is less known. One of this “contra” events is the Augustin Ball, organized by the “Augustin-Magazine”, which is sold on the streets by homeless and long-term unemployed people. In former times, to underline its role against the main event, it was called “The Ball of the Victims”.

This story was published on Witness Journal issue 21.

Hot

docpeace — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:32:18 +0000

During a collective attempt to explore the life of the city of Florence in Italy from a different point of view, avoiding the tourist clichés. I’ve been assigned to explore the erotic nightlife taking place mainly on nightclubs on the outskirts of the city.

30 Meters per Hour

docpeace — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:11:38 +0000

From an ancient Spanish origin, the rites of the Holy Week in Taranto are among the most important and emotional in Italy. The procession of the Holy Thursday and the Good Friday are followed by thousands. The first procession on Thursday is the “Addolorata” (Our Lady of Sorrows) starting at midnight and following a long route along the old and the new town only to come back the day after in the afternoon. On Friday the long Mysteries procession sets out from the church of St. Mary of Carmel returning the next morning after another long pilgrimage around the town. The pilgrims, called Perdoni, walk barefeet and mostly with faces covered with hoods. They are the sinners the ones pleading for forgiveness. The average speed of the processions is 30 meters per hour, an exasperate slowness accompanied by funeral marches. Every year a very terrestrial auction is organized to have the privilege to carry the statues with prices that fall well above the 50.000 Euro. Tradition, mysticism, slowness, dark business, this is all around Taranto during those days.

Kosovo

docpeace — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:25:15 +0000