How growing up in Sicily shaped you as an artist and influenced your decision to study photography? Glauco Canalis G. I hit the streets quite early, at the age of six or seven, joining the kids forming gangs in my neighborhood, going around playing and fighting with other kids from the nearby areas.
Being the youngest in my group of friends, I had to face daily challenges of all sorts to compensate the age gap and prove that I was as brave as my older peers.
We had a lot of beef going on with the nearby gangs of kids. The link to the territory, the manhood we were trying to emulate as kids, the conflict and sense of ownership and projection over a place and a group of people, are coming back through my photographic work.
I think that these little elements shaped the necessity of being a storyteller and photographer today. The anger and wilderness of the streets were contrasting to the environment in my family's house.
My father was a Latin and Greek lecturer and an amateur musician and photographer. Like many people of his generation, he had a darkroom at home. Our house was full of photographs and images; my father used to show me the photos from his trips, using the projector, he set up in my bedroom. It preserved monuments of its glorious past, over churches dating back to the a. A vast estate from the Roman era with floors entirely covered in mosaics, depicting chapters of the Roman and Hellenistic epic.
