Kodak Gold 200

Aside from the usual pictures of my cat and an old car, there are a couple of projects in this roll of film.

One of them is a sort of “aborted” project, as I quickly realized I wasn’t quite up to the task. My idea was to document a scene that I’m not sure will last: the ubiquitous presence of street food trucks in my hometown in Sicily. They specialize in horse meat sandwiches with a variety of condiments—mostly cheese and ketchup, though some people add oil-preserved spicy mushrooms, onions, or eggplant to make them even heartier.

This year, a broad coalition of MPs in the Italian Parliament is proposing to ban the production, import, and sale of horse meat in Italy. This effectively threatens to erase one of the most ancient and beloved culinary traditions of my hometown and the Sicilian east coast. I love horses and am almost vegetarian, so I understand the sentiment, but many people will be quite upset if this proposal becomes law.

Another project was to document an abandoned house with a partially collapsed roof near a vineyard where I work during the summer. One of my dogs followed me, and I think I managed to take a couple of nice pictures there. I also captured a lovely portrait of my eldest daughter working the harvest in the very first light of morning.