The feast of the Madonna a Mare
The feast of the Madonna a Mare is the highlight of the summer celebrated in Soverato, Calabria, and takes place every second Sunday of August. Attracting hundreds of thousands people to the city for over 100 years, the Madonna has been carried in procession to the sea by dozens of boats and the population has gathered along more than 3 km of beach to form a human wall, greeting the Virgin with a dip in the sea. The culmination of the festival, and also the most exciting moment, is a dive into the sea of all the people as the statue passes along the coast.
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Biography
Angelo Marani, born 1975, is a photographer based in Bologna, Italy. Always attracted by the camera as a means of expression and a descriptive tool, he started as a self-taught. He studied photography in a school of Bologna where he also attended a master in photojournalism, then in New York, Stockholm, and France; here he attended an interesting workshop about portraiture that gave to him a beautiful intention to use the camera. He realized many projects and exhibitions and received different honorable mentions. Much of his work focuses on portrait and reportage with an intimate approach.
