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PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew

Southern Sicily

Images from Sicily- “Throughout the history of the human race, no land and no people have suffered so terribly from slavery, from foreign conquests and oppression, and none have struggled so irrepressibly for emancipation as Sicily and the Sicilians.”-―Marx and Engels

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PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew

Waiting out the Mistral - Porto Pino

I walked up and down the quay at dusk with my camera trying to find the daily reality of fishing at Porto Pino — The techno music ridden tourist beaches are only a few hundred metres away, but the port has a different rhythm, that beats through the seasons, not just for the summer crowds.

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