The Covid Pandemic Experienced In Radiology

• Prize
  Bronze in Editorial/Photo Essay
• Photographer
  Alberto Vincenzo Pappalardo
• Photo Date
  2020

The Covid pandemic has been one of the toughest tests for humanity in the last decade. Health workers operated with the awareness of having a central role in stemming the advance of the virus. I am a radiology technician at the hospital in Paternò, a city located on the slopes of the Etna volcano. These photographs are a small indelible sign of what we have experienced and of our work. Among these there is also the photo taken of the colleague who first became infected, moments that remained imprinted in our minds and which gave us even more strength in carrying out our service.

Born in 1979 in Catania, he lives and works in Paternò, a town on the slopes of the Etna volcano. Graduated in Radiology Techniques and passionate about photography. In 2019, after a self-taught path, he attended the photography course at the ACAF in Catania and continued by following various workshops, thus starting to mature technique, observation and thought. For Alberto, photography is a tool to tell a personal point of view, the perception of an event, the urgency to fix in time the emotions aroused by an encounter, a personal growth through a constantly evolving journey.