Sicily, 2015-2020 This project shows a world whose roots lie in my childhood spent in Sicily, the place where I was born. It’s about one of the most precarious categories of workers who try to survive from day to day by making a living without the certainty of tomorrow. They are street vendors, farm hands, smiths, and other small artisans and workers who still represent an important working class, particularly in South Italy, that is largely affected by the current crisis and in general by globalization. But this series is above all a tribute to the most common means of transport of these workers, a characteristic vehicle that is part of Italian tradition, and that is slowly disappearing: the "Ape Piaggio" (Bee). The Bee is a three-wheeled cheap, minimal and versatile means. Basically it is a motorcycle equipped with a small cabin and a loading platform suitable for all kinds of small transports. My childhood memories are still inhabited by images of these tiny vehicles buzzing all around the streets of Sicilian cities and villages. Through a series of diptychs I try to underline the relationship that the owners have established with their Bees, a relationship that often lasts a lifetime. The images of the polyhedral cabins are juxtaposed with the portraits of their respective possessors, evocating a strict relationship, somehow even a similarity, between the two. Faded, rusted and worn-out up to the point to be literally consumed, the Bees represent the fascinating symbol of a working class that still tries to resist and strives for its survival. I present here an extract of the whole series.