Building the future.
Text is coming soon..

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http://www.viewbookphotostory.com/2009/09/in-the-middle-of-nowhere/
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http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1096157

In these years of virtual reality,
where children have stopped playing the war in the courtyard
and they do it just in front of the computer,
there are those who don’t want to miss the adrenalin on the skin.
Weekly, groups of fans of military tactics come in lost places.
Wearing uniforms and weapon in hand, simulate real battles,
sometimes rebuilding real wars episodes.
Of course they do with “toy” guns, their rifles shoot plastic pellets.
What drives these people playing the war today that information bombards us
with pictures of pain and suffering associated with conflicts?
How could it be that the images of a game you can confuse
with images of a real war?
This is the world of SOFTAIR.
The motivations that lead to participate are the most disparate,
as the social realities from which lovers of this sport/game come,
reality that would be never in touch are shooting at the enemy,
shoulder to shoulder.
The protagonist of this project is
Simon aka Sergeant Ramirez, 24th Marines Expeditionary Unit.
Simon is a young precarious, born in the Dominican Republic,
Now he lives in Rome, in multi-ethnic neighbourhood of San Lorenzo, where
so many young people from all over Italy and all over the world live a reality
made up of short-term project contracts and dreams of quick profits.
Softair is a chance of integration, playing war shares intense emotions with unknown people.
Despite all this is fiction, the atmosphere is true and sincere
are human relationship that are established between paricipants.
Friendship, envy, hate, submission, admiration, loyalty, all feelings
and relationship that inevitably throw in any group of people
and during any interaction between individuals.
With this long-term project, I am examining in depth
the concepts of social and sociability, conflicts,
deviations, and definition of roles, especially in places of male aggregation,
stressing the absolute importance of different environment
from which everyone comes.

http://www.burnmagazine.org/works-in-progress/2011/04/matteo-armellini-simon/

http://witness.fotoup.net/wj/?issue=43

” I remember when we used to sit
in the government yard in Trenchtown
and then Georgie would make the fire light
log wood burnin’ through the night.
Then we would cook corn meal porridge
of which I’ ll share with you ”

Bob Marley, “No woman No cry”