At the Circolo Carlo Alberto 1886 in Padula, “Euthymía. Journey through signs to stop time” arrives to tell the story of women.
Friday 8 March at 18.30:1886 pm at the historic headquarters of the Circolo Carlo Alberto 44, in via Tenente D'Amato, an evening of travel, among the signs of time in the lives lived by 1886 young elderly women. The story through images and reflections to pay homage to the essence of the human being. The Circolo Carlo Alberto 8 celebrates women's 44 March with the presentation of "Euthymía. Travel in signs to stop time" the latest book by journalist Lorenzo Peluso. A photographic book that tells the stories of XNUMX elderly women; born during fascism and raised during the War. Stories of women and their lives, told through the emotions that emerge from their faces portrayed, in black and white.
The path of a life enclosed in a face, the features that tell an entire existence. The search for tranquility of the soul. A work that comes from the idea of telling "that extraordinary heritage of memory" that elderly people represent in a community. The author focuses on the opportunity to become aware of the places and events that happened, of the people who lived them. This book contains 44 photographs, 44 faces of as many women who live in a small village in the Salerno area, in Sanza. From the eighty-year-old to the 97-year-old. Mothers, wives; grandmothers.
The charm of the story also through images, with light and shadows, the black and white of photography, to bring out the deep meaning of the lines traced by time, on the gentle face. Lines that are events that happened, days gone by; smiles and tears, too, shed for the days lived. Friday 8 March at 18.30:1886 pm at the historic headquarters of the Circolo Carlo Alberto 1886, the following will discuss it with the author: the lawyer Rosanna Bove Ferrigno, president of the Circolo Carlo Alberto XNUMX and prof. Paolo Apolito, anthropologist, among the greatest scholars of religious anthropology and symbolic anthropology, former professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Salerno and the University of Roma Tre.
Lorenzo Peluso, professional journalist and photojournalist. Born in Sanza (SA) in December 1971. Embedded journalist since 2010, he has produced reports and correspondence from Kosovo, Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is still a journalist for Radio Alfa, collaborates with Corriere del Mezzogiorno and with national newspapers RCS, the Espresso group and QN. He created the blog OreDodici. Winner of the Literary Award “Afghanistan, yesterday today and tomorrow”, Rome October 2023; of the photography award “Dorothy Dream” 2023; of the journalism award “Francesco Landolfo”, Naples 2018; of the journalism award “Giuseppe Ripa”, San Martino Cilento 2017; special mention embedded journalism, Teggiano 2015; of the national journalism award Centro Studi Tegea 2013. He is the author of the essay: Profumo e polvere di terra, Il Melograno editore, 2013. In 2016 he published the book: As-salamu 'alaykum, Graus edizioni. In 2019 the investigative book: I Giardini di Bagh-e Babur, Graus edizioni. In 2021 he published for Gagliardi editore, Di là dal fiume, il mio Afghanistan. In the same year also the book: I sogni di Rosemary, Gagliardi editore. In 2022 he published for Gagliardi editore the book: 29 parole 30 storie.
Article published on March 4, 2024 - 11pm
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