The Workers Passion

• Photographer
  Luisa Montagna
• Photo Date
  2019

The “Processione dei Misteri”, which for more than 400 years has been renewed in Trapani (Sicily, Italy) for Holy Week, sees thousands of people involved: those who care for and decorate the statuary groups, those who carry them in procession, those who make clothes, those who play in the band. A great fervor precedes the day of the procession that takes place every year between Holy Friday and Saturday through the streets of the city. In Trapani it is an event expected all year round in which the sacred and the profane, the centenary rite and the popular expression of south Italy merge.

She comes from an artistic background, having obtained a Level II Academic Diploma in Cello. For about ten years, she worked for musical institutions as a professor of orchestra and in chamber music ensembles. For several decades, she is working in the field of Visual Communication. Always in search of her own identity as a photographer, she began by devoting herself to the genre of documentary reportage, and has lately moved closer to a more evocative and dreamlike style, where images overlap and merge to create new worlds that satisfy her feeling as a dreamer.