By Tiziana Faraoni and Daniele Zendroni

I started the story of Laurentino 38, a suburb south of Rome, in August 2009 thanks to an old man Armando ex boxer world champion of the armed forces and owner of a shack on a lawn in front of the complex of the public houses.
I spent weeks at the barracks until it meets Massimo said "the panther. Max runs a bar that everyone calls "bisca", abusive, frequented by mob in search of human buzz, companionship and affection. There is talk of prison, broken homes, real and imaginary stories, neighborhood gossip, "give me a shot", "my son is in prison" "they have killed mine," He's that committed suicide". there's someone who sways and eyes red and wet from drugs, who cries, who laugh and play cue, every time a fight, "Hey! I'll kill u”, and cocaine, this obsessively ... always in the pocket, in the minds and blood. There is also the heroine, but "that is for jinxed." And then the bad stories, the myth of the Canaro, the Magliana crew, The Sicily, Claudio Sicilia, that was assassinated, he controlled the area, there are those who knew him and who misrepresent unlikely criminal associations. Months pass and get familiar with their language which is not simply a dialect popularized but a logical universe, that divorces what is good from what is bad. Welcomed into their inner loneliness the play repressed outbursts, shouted and squeezed, unique, surprising and tragic, sometimes grotesque, the silences and outbursts of residues of souls crushed by a dense and constant claustrophobic anxiety.

The exhibition is produced by the agency Prospekt

Biography

Luca Ferrari completed a degree in Documentary Photography at University of Wales, Newport and in Sociology at La Sapienza University in Rome with a thesis on the media and relationship conflict. Winner of several awards in Italy and England, including the first prize students Observer Hodge Award and Ian Parry Scholarship (Commended) and selected for the Press Photographer of the Year 2009. He has exhibited his work in London (Tom Blau Gallery, Guardian Newsroom) in Rome (2001 Enzymes, Brancaleone), Paris (Bar Floreal Gallery) Bibbiena (Italian Centre of Photography Author), Bogota (Planetarium Museum), Winephoto 2007. In 2005 he published his first book Rebibbia.
He made reports in Europe, former Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Colombia, India, Philippines and Sri Lanka. he is memeber of Prospekt agency .