
Scugnizzi
- Publisher
- Dashwood Books
- Year
- 2014
- Specifications
- Softcover
64 pages
9.5 x 6.75 in
First edition
Edition of 500 copies
Scugnizzi is the term used for the local kids who overrun the town beaches of Naples in summer. Brett Lloyd's photographs, taken over two extended summers, are vignettes of daily drama on the beach that seem to channel Italian neorealist cinema of the 1940s and even smack of the bawdy Naples where Caravaggio sought exile. Black-and-white and colour pages show teenage boys in swimwear on the sand, a tattooed teenager leaning on a seafront wall, sunbathers on the rocks and a lean man caught mid-gesture in a street under festival lights.