GIANMARCO GIORGIO GRUGNETTI
PICTURES ARE BRIDGES, LET DIFFERENT WORLDS TALK TOGETHER

As anthropologist I am interested in culture and cultural changes. I am sure we can learn a lot from others ways of live life and we can open our mind and be more empathetic and inclusive.

During my last trip, I met the story of the cormorant’s fishermen and I knew how their life has changed in recent years. They have switched from an ancient tradition made of fishing with the cormorant, to a new tradition made of tourism. They did this job for centuries, until socio-economic changes have forced them to rethink their job. By using the development of the tourism, they now work as photo models for the tourists.

Someone may say that we have lost a deep tradition and it’s only a touristic. But, according with the idea of not static culture and not static identity, there’s no loss, there is a new and authentic cultural tradition. Assert the opposite would mean to try to fix culture in space and time. It would mean carry on a dangerous thinking made of ethnocentrism and racists drifts.

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