Mediterranean fishermen portrayed by Carlo Gianferro on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

Citizens of the Sea is the exhibition that, from Oct. 3 to 20, 2019, displays to the public at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere some portraits by photographer Carlo Gianferro (Rome, 1970). In the four trips to the Mediterranean that he undertook for the FishMPABlue2 project (in marine protected areas in Croatia - TelašÄ‡ica, France - Cap Roux, Greece - Zante and Italy - Egadi Islands), Gianferro was engaged in photographing fishermen, their work, their relationship with the environment and family, and places. An engagement in which the portrait, always an important protagonist, is only a part of the narrative.

Gianferro has thus mixed portraits and landscapes, moments shared and moments stolen. He has recounted a world that is small and yet essential for the Mediterranean to continue to exist, with the awareness of using photography to support and defend the work of those whose daily work can help protect even an endangered ecosystem.

In a context of intensive fishing, where fish populations are declining at an alarming rate, artisanal fishers are also at risk of disappearing if they do not adopt responsible behavior. Their involvement in creating new, more sea-friendly fishing models, their willingness to cooperate with marine protected areas, could change the future of fishing, fishermen, fish and the sea itself.

Gianferro’s photography does not seek shortcuts or indulge in aesthetic acrobatics but records days and nights of work, faces and gestures, with a sober grammar mastered with great experience. And he powerfully takes the side of those who still and always believe that photography can be a tool of knowledge and, who knows, even of change.

For all information you can visit the official website of the Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

Source: press release

Mediterranean fishermen portrayed by Carlo Gianferro on display at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere

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