Photo by Raija Kalioinen
In 1996 Isravele - the name after which the worker has renamed himself - decides to leave his family and home, in the Zen district in Palermo in order to retire to Mount Gallo, occupying an abandoned military lighthouse. He recovered the old block and turns it into a personal sanctuary:…
An unmounted albumen print showing the catacombs of the Capuchin monks at Palermo in Sicily. Photographed by Giuseppe Incorpora (1834-1914) of Palermo, whose career as a photographer began in the 1860’s. He was later joined in the business by his sons, Francesco, Giovanni, and Salvatore. The studio is the subject of a…