In Templi, Agrigento, Pietro Motisi captures a quietly charged juxtaposition between everyday Sicilian life and the grandeur of ancient architecture. Shot with a large format camera on Kodak Portra 160 film, the image presents the famed Temple of Concordia in the background—serene, distant, timeless—while the foreground is occupied by domestic objects, patchwork fences, and improvised structures.
Motisi's framing is meticulous yet understated. The composition resists spectacle, instead highlighting how the ancient past lives not in isolation, but alongside the rhythms of the present. A leaning utility pole cuts across the sky like a modern column; laundry and cardboard replace marble and myth. The photograph is a subtle meditation on coexistence—between permanence and impermanence, monument and margin.
Part of the CEMENTO series, this limited edition print redefines the landscape of heritage through a lens both intimate and unflinching.