Bio
Vurria Cultural Association, based in Sicily, produces documentary projects and runs workshops.
Since 2023 it has produced Pray for Seamen (winner of the Italian Council, Italian Ministry of Culture), Nonostante Ballarò, Nonostante Ustica, About Africa and Hotspot Mediterraneo.
Now it brings this experience to Accra, with a school of photography and videomaking.
Works
Pray for Seamen
Palermo · Italian Council
Investigating the decline of small-scale fishing and port communities through human stories, Pray For Seamen tells a story of bonds: between man and the sea, between fishing and the city, between a changing climate and a trade that has to deal with it every day. But also the most unexpected ones: the bonds between three places that live off fishing, and between people who, though a sea divides their lands, share a common horizon.
Winning project of the Italian Council, Italian Ministry of Culture.
Ciapani
Video
Hotspot Factory
Video
Nonostante Ballarò
Francesco Bellina & Antonio Marras · 2020–2024
The encounter, born on social media during the lockdown, between photographer Francesco Bellina and designer and artist Antonio Marras: two days in September in the Ballarò district of Palermo, between fashion, set, documentary and social experiment. The project was exhibited in Palermo, in the Church of SS. Crispino e Crispiniano (May 2024), and in Ustica (September 2024).
Hotspot Mediterraneo
Francesco Bellina · Stefano Liberti
Hotspot Mediterraneo is the first major interactive exhibition – 43 photographs accompanied by video and audio – on the ecosystem change sweeping the Mediterranean. The exhibition, conceived by documentary photographer Francesco Bellina and environmental journalist and writer Stefano Liberti, is under the patronage of the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies.
Our new project
Next Frame Academy
A free 3-month course in photography and videomaking for young Ghanaians, in Madina, Accra. Together with the Ghanaian NGO Climescape, to turn talent into a profession.
