Berlin MaN-y-LANDS
Berlin MAN-y-LANDS is an ongoing project started in 2017 in Berlin.
One stool, one light, one camera and the magic begins.
It always mesmerises me how much is hidden behind a face,
the invisible scars we keep inside, untold, and the beauty we hold without saying words.
This is my tribute to the people who are fighting to pursue their dreams.
ADONAI SEBHATU
Adonai is an emergent artist who lives and works in Bologna-Italy. He is a second generation Italian, his family is originally from Eritrea. His work combines different techniques and medias, creating a balance and a dialogue among the three main reference points of an artwork: Space, Medium and Form. He uses up-cycled materials to create his masterpieces. These find interaction with the observer recalling each ones' subjective perceptions.
"We are an ongoing-in-the-making-product of our life experiences and the influences of the World surrounding."
Adonai Sebhatu
in between
Mattia Cacciatori is an award winning photojournalist, who decided to became a shepherd. After his last trip to Istanbul in 2013, where he was arrested during the Taksim Square protests, he decided to take a break from photojournalism and to dedicate himself on bio-projects in his Homeland, Veneto-Italy, combining old rural traditions with modern techniques of biological production and cultivation in order to protect the environment and ecosystem.
During the summer of 2019 I spent few days with Mattia, his dogs and his herd documenting his life during the transhumance. With no electricity, no services and no running water, living in a small caravan located on the top of a hill, time and rhythm of life became slower and nature-connected.
"(...) I am a shepherd and I live on the mountains surrounding Verona. Together with my dogs, I take care of a herd of sheep and goats. Day after day we are on the mountains, together as a whole. One could not survive without the other. Rain, sun, fog, snow and wind. I am grateful I found the strength to change my life. Until a couple of years ago I was a documentary photographer and I travelled around the World spending my days far away from Home, constantly looking for stories to tell. I used to nourish my Soul with knowledge but at some point, I realised that the awareness of myself was going missing and I deeply wanted to be part of a whole. I, in fact, as a part of the individualistic consumer-society, was missing the bound to Her, Pacha Mama, Gaia, Mother Land. Today my life is made of little things but I can feel my Self again and as a part of the Nature around me. This interdependence scares me a bit but it also makes this bond stronger".
Mattia Cacciatori
