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BIO Diana Bagnoli is an Italian freelance photographer, graduated in Communication and then in Photography in Barcelona. From 2009, when she won the first prize in the Reportage category and was awarded as the Photographer of the Year at the FIOF...
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The uncle is the fashion designer, present in the Oreste Pipolo studio for the pre-communion shooting. They try the dress and make the latest adjustments. "it is even more beautiful than I expected," says Francesca "it's important because for a special day we need a special dress".
A girl is playing in her silent house. When the guys enter in the forest all the women stay at home, worried and praying for them. They are strictly banned to have any contact with their husband and children. Just the little girls has the special permission to get closer to the boys in the forest to bring them some food and communicate with them.
Mlomb, Bignonà, Casamance Senegal
The pigeon lover Alfonso goes to the Grand Hotel La Sonrisa to offer the flight of his doves. During the Communions doves are used to make the event even more spectacular.
three-quarters of Venice have been submerged by the high tide, called "acqua alta". The water rose by more than five feet (156cm), the highest level since 2008. Several commercial activities have been damaged.
In the countyside of the Rasuwa district in Nepal, people's life is strongly affected by landslides that keep them isolated from the rest of the world during several months of the rainy season.
The landslides are increased in the last years due to the change of the monsoons and deforestation.
This girl is going to work in the field and has been portrayed in front of a piece of mountain recently fallen down on her way in Patikharka.
Quyllur Rit'i (in quechua means "Star Snow") is a spiritual and religious festival held annually at the Sinakara Valley in the Cusco Region of Peru. Catholic and pagan people spend all the night dancing and singing.
A man is praying in his family house in the countryside in Casamance, in a small village called Mlomb, where the initiation will take place this year. Mlomb, Bignonà, Casamance Senegal
Jola boys from the same village will be initiated this year. They need to be shaved before enter to the forest. From this moment they’re not allowed anymore to see any women, touch them or come back to the house of their mothers. They will enter in the forest and never reveal to anyone what happen inside. Mlomb, Bignonà, Casamance Senegal
Jola people people during celebration use to demonstrate they physical and spiritual force cutting themselves with sharp knives protected by their amulets (Gris-gris) and by a potion made of blessed water and a local root that makes their skin stronger.
Mlomb, Bignonà, Casamance Senegal
Rosa is a traditional indigenous healer from Tehuacan.
The curanderas, they’re often women of special competences, have to look at their patient as an all-encompassing physical, spiritual, and emotional level. They heal when the illness is provoked by a trauma or a displeasure or has even supernatural origins.
Rosa uses Temazcal, a typical sweat lodges in a circular structure which originated with pre-Hispanic Indigenous peoples from the Nahuatl word. It’s a curative ceremony thought to purify both body and spirit and to heal sickness.
Rosa is also an activist for indigenous rights and asks her patients to reconnect with their lost traditions and the power of nature.
Haiti, Voodoo.
A mambo, a voodoo woman priest, making an offer to the Saut d’Eau Waterfalls, in the Centre department of Haiti.
This event is commonly known as Sodo. It was July 2018.
Every year, thousands of haitian travel to these waterfalls to bath in the holy waters, asking for favors and praying for healing from the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and her voodoo counterpart Erzulie.
Haiti, voodoo.
A Young boy possessed by the Loa (spirit) of water during Sodo celebration, close to the waterfall. According to the people around the spirit had a message for his family
Haiti, Voodoo.
A vudù healer working in his studio, surrounded by his tools as magic books, dolls, cards, alcohol, holy figures. His son is watching and silently learning, so one day, if a spirit will ask him, he will hereby his father profession
Pascuala is a healer called the "pulsadora", it means she heals feeling the heart beating by the pulse. She was healing her nephiew. Since several years she introduced the soft drink in her ceremonies, as "CocaCola is sweet so the spirts will appreciate it and it also have certain healing properties" she says. El Pinar community, close to San Cristobal