‘My people’, Gianfranco Jannuzzo’s Agrigento told in a hundred photos

There is the prickly pear seller leaning on a concrete stone immersed in his thoughts, but also the child who is immortalized in front of his donkey or the lady looking out the window with the clothes hanging. These are just some of the one hundred shots by Gianfranco Jannuzzo, the well-known actor from Agrigento, who trained at the school of Gigi Proietti, published in a book published by the ‘Medinova’ publishing house. ‘Gente mia’ tells of the artist’s Agrigento, who has always been very attached to his homeland, but where he lived only until the age of 12, when he moved to the Continent with the whole family. In Rome. Where he began to take an interest in photography. A passion that has never subsided. Indeed, “Even today many when they see me arrive exclaim: ‘Arrè chiddu ca camera camera cè (There’s the one with the camera again ed)’. Jannuzzo tells in the book his childhood, his move to Rome, his meeting with the theater, with Gigi Proietti. But the love for his ‘Girgenti’, the ancient Agrigento, has never died out. A love that he has also told over the years in his show “Girgenti my love”, which has brought to many Italian theaters, even in the North. And where it was greatly appreciated. Last summer Jannuzzo decided to collect the photographs, taken first at the end of the seventies and then in the last few years, and to publish a book. addressed to Angelo Pitrone, who is entrusted with the preface. In the first part of the book the actor-photographer also tells the cultural and environmental context in which the photos contained in his book were born. photographs, published if Without following a chronological order, the book will be presented tomorrow afternoon, at 5 pm, at Villa Zito, headquarters of the Sicily Foundation, in the presence of the journalists Elvira Terranova and Felice Cavallaro, the publisher Antonio Liotta and the curator Angelo Pitrone. And by the same author, who in these days is engaged in Palermo in the show ‘Sicilian by chance’, until November 14th.