In April of 2009 I traveled to Sicily to photograph the Easter week processions in the towns of Scicli and Ispica in the southeast, and Enna near the island’s center. I went with the expectation of being an observer, but it was impossible not to become a participant. The wild crush of bodies, and expressions of joy and energy belied the outward trappings of a strictly religious event and related in my mind more to spring cycles of fertility and rebirth. Still, the expressions of faith, and the particular historical costuming of the confraternite underlined the connection to the Catholic Church and the processions that have been repeated in these towns over hundreds of years.
