Projects – Matteo Perini

Reportage

Here you can find my photographic projects, the complete works are available with full-body related articles in different languages.

Marble Connection – Carrara, Italy
Tech now permits to extract the marble at double speed causing ecological and economical troubles

Finding Shangry-La, Yunnan - China — Finding Shangry-La, Yunnan – China
For a commercial idea this town has been renamed, now it’s the heavenly ‘Shangry-La’

Celestial Voodoo - Benin — Celestial Voodoo – Benin
Ancient Christian and Voodoo rituals take place at the same time

The Last Percebe - Galicia, Spain — The Last Percebe – Galicia, Spain
They risk their lives for harvesting a rare sea-fruit that is slowly disappearing

Documentaries

MISTIQUE OUIDAH – DIEU EST CAMÉLÉON

Directed by Matteo Perini, Simone Stefanelli. A documentary genre film – Italy, 2015, duration 52 minutes.
For thousands of years the mysterious and cryptic Voodoo faith has played a fundamental role on the populations of West Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. In 2015, two reporter left for Ouidah for the third time. They try to discover what lies behind religious mysteries that at first glance seem inextricable, discovering not only the dynamics of the Voodoo faith, but a mixture of apparently distant and incompatible religions. This constellation of faiths seems to compose an umbilical cord that intimately binds the population: a magical mental and social condition that proves to be extremely unique and precious, especially in this moment of instability due to the disruptive action carried out by extremist groups.

E DASHUROJNË ME ZEMER – PERCHÉ LA AMANO CON TUTTO IL CUORE

Directed by Stefania Amanti, Matteo Perini. Documentary genre – Italy, 2015
August 2014. The Spartiti per Scutari Orkestra, an orchestra of traditional Albanian music, composed almost entirely of Italian musicians, goes on tour through the Balkans for the first time, taking a long bus journey to Kosovo and Albania. The final destination of the journey is Scutari itself, the city of origin of Bard Jakova, artistic director and only Albanian musician of the group. Every city and concert is an opportunity for meeting and exchange between the cultures of different peoples.