Valdina is tired

Home is where your heart is

Valdina è una delle protagoniste del mio progetto Emilia. Conosco Valdina (Giachin Valdina, all’anagrafe) da quando ero piccola. Ha vissuto per più di trenta anni da sola nell’appartamento di proprietà di mia madre. Fino a quando, nell’agosto del 2016, decise

Valdina is tired

Home is where your heart is

Valdina è una delle protagoniste del mio progetto Emilia. Conosco Valdina (Giachin Valdina, all’anagrafe) da quando ero piccola. Ha vissuto per più di trenta anni da sola nell’appartamento di proprietà di mia madre. Fino a quando, nell’agosto del 2016, decise

Tatemae Honne Silvia Casali Photography

Tatemae | Honne

My status: almost fifty years, woman, mother and wife, with a malignant black hole in the back, in a town in the Italian province. My shell armor is quickly giving way, and that black hole reminds me of it every

Tatemae Honne Silvia Casali Photography

Tatemae | Honne

My status: almost fifty years, woman, mother and wife, with a malignant black hole in the back, in a town in the Italian province. My shell armor is quickly giving way, and that black hole reminds me of it every

Alberto Soncini Silvia Casali Photography

Alberto

Alberto Soncini, born in 1920, the marvel of a life “despite all”, the energy of enjoying life “despite all”. “Despite all” for Alberto meant many of the most terrible things that a human being can experience during his lifetime: his

Alberto Soncini Silvia Casali Photography

Alberto

Alberto Soncini, born in 1920, the marvel of a life “despite all”, the energy of enjoying life “despite all”. “Despite all” for Alberto meant many of the most terrible things that a human being can experience during his lifetime: his

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane Silvia Casali Photography

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane

The Officine Meccaniche Reggiane, also known as “Le Reggiane”, located in Reggio Emilia, was one of the most important company in Italy from its opening on 1901 until the end of WWII. In these huge buildings military aircrafts were built,

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane Silvia Casali Photography

Officine Meccaniche Reggiane

The Officine Meccaniche Reggiane, also known as “Le Reggiane”, located in Reggio Emilia, was one of the most important company in Italy from its opening on 1901 until the end of WWII. In these huge buildings military aircrafts were built,

Come butta oggi Gildo?

Quelli delle 5.30

“Quelli delle 5.30” (5.30 am folks) is a small project that collects some of the images I show during the last 5 years while on holiday in Riccione (Italy). While I am there I usually wake up before dawn and head

Come butta oggi Gildo?

Quelli delle 5.30

“Quelli delle 5.30” (5.30 am folks) is a small project that collects some of the images I show during the last 5 years while on holiday in Riccione (Italy). While I am there I usually wake up before dawn and head

Bottega Rosati copyright silvia casali

Bottega Rosati

Mr. Rosati, an expert bicycle mechanic, died in 2002 and that day his bottega (shop in Italian)) closed for good. My task was to document the state of the this little dark place before renovations. During these 15 years dust

Bottega Rosati copyright silvia casali

Bottega Rosati

Mr. Rosati, an expert bicycle mechanic, died in 2002 and that day his bottega (shop in Italian)) closed for good. My task was to document the state of the this little dark place before renovations. During these 15 years dust

E m i l i a

  E m i l i a is a  narrating the history of my home town, Scandiano, and of my own region in Italy – Emilia Romagna – through the stories of the women that in the past eighty years

E m i l i a

  E m i l i a is a  narrating the history of my home town, Scandiano, and of my own region in Italy – Emilia Romagna – through the stories of the women that in the past eighty years

Turban Child by Silvia Casali Commended Photography at Sony World Photography Award 2017

ਿਵਆ ਏਮੀਿਲਆ | Via Emilia

Travelling on the Via Emilia in Italy, and meeting people whose hands carry on a tradition that nowadays is labelled as “dirty and tiring” by the Emilia’s natives. People whose bright eyes marked by time are curious to learn the

Turban Child by Silvia Casali Commended Photography at Sony World Photography Award 2017

ਿਵਆ ਏਮੀਿਲਆ | Via Emilia

Travelling on the Via Emilia in Italy, and meeting people whose hands carry on a tradition that nowadays is labelled as “dirty and tiring” by the Emilia’s natives. People whose bright eyes marked by time are curious to learn the

Il Dubbio | Muta Riflessione

Muta Riflessione

This project, Muta Riflessione (Silent Reflection) was first presented during  Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on May 2015 The images narrate the sometimes strange relationship between manhood and landscape – new technologies have permeated our daily life, and we more often find it difficult

Il Dubbio | Muta Riflessione

Muta Riflessione

This project, Muta Riflessione (Silent Reflection) was first presented during  Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (Italy) on May 2015 The images narrate the sometimes strange relationship between manhood and landscape – new technologies have permeated our daily life, and we more often find it difficult

Liquidscape

Documentary photography from the Po (Italy) flood, November 2015

Liquidscape

Documentary photography from the Po (Italy) flood, November 2015

36mq

36sqm, a small space where to spend 12 hours a day. But making a list of all the things you can do in that space, experiences, emotions and feelings that you can share in such a small space, then 36sqm

36mq

36sqm, a small space where to spend 12 hours a day. But making a list of all the things you can do in that space, experiences, emotions and feelings that you can share in such a small space, then 36sqm

Cosa accade quando tutto si ferma- Before your very eyes Silvia Casali

Cosa accade quando tutto si ferma | Before your very Eyes

Awarded Honorable Mention 2013 IPA Int’l Photography Awards Living is not running after life. To live is to breathe every single moment. Like when everything stops because there is no other solution than to stand still and wait. The real

Cosa accade quando tutto si ferma- Before your very eyes Silvia Casali

Cosa accade quando tutto si ferma | Before your very Eyes

Awarded Honorable Mention 2013 IPA Int’l Photography Awards Living is not running after life. To live is to breathe every single moment. Like when everything stops because there is no other solution than to stand still and wait. The real

Riccione Shades | In progress

  Riccione: a seaside resort small town in Italy, known to all for its discos, for the beaches crowded with umbrellas and bathers. To me, Riccione is something else: it is the dawn, it is the timid sound of the

Riccione Shades | In progress

  Riccione: a seaside resort small town in Italy, known to all for its discos, for the beaches crowded with umbrellas and bathers. To me, Riccione is something else: it is the dawn, it is the timid sound of the