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SHOT IN SICILY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY: MICHAEL ROBERTS
September 10, 2008 - October 18, 2008"Where is your mission statement?" demanded this gallery. What the hell is a 'mission statement', I thought? Sounds preachy. Like Madonna (even if she did write a song called 'Papa Don't Preach'). Besides, if anything has little use for a purposeful mission statement it is these photographs of Sicily. They initially happened by pure and simple chance. While holidaying in Italy with a friend 20 years ago we somehow ended up in a depressing rainy Venice over Easter. With a few days still to go I closed my eyes and stuck a pin in the map. It landed near Messina on Sicily's northeastern tip. A short plane ride later we were confronting sunlit orange and lemon groves, almond blossom, ancient temples, crumpled stone farmhouses, wary weathered locals and a darkly smoking volcano. How then could there not be resulting photographs? 20 years on and many visits later I am once again confronting Sicily in this gallery. My Sicily—completely subjective, entirely edited and occasionally enhanced. A Sicily, which, in these photographs, looks as though time stood still. Of course, the island has changed. But as any reader of The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's iconic Sicilian novel will know: You have to change in order to stay the same.
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© Michael Roberts / Maconochie Photography
