It is as though a single destiny linked human degradation and the ruinous state of these places, inuring everyone to the erosion of souls and of walls through decades of immobility: the symbiosis of man and his environment. The photographer has long worked in Palermo’s Vucciria, and his colour-saturated images pull us into the atmosphere of one of the world’s most incredible places. "Vucciria is small, but in reality it is a huge multi-ethnic quarter in constant transformation, with its own rules, its fantastic characters, its grand decadent charm suspended between past and present, with no future but the biological end of its inhabitants."