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GAETANO DI VAIO Drug trafficking, robbery Actor, producer, writer From behind the gates of Naples’ ‘Poggioreale’ I could hear cries and loud shouting, I couldn’t understand anything, one can only guess that it was mayhem. I smile, imagining that the world outside protests for my release, the gangster Gaetano Di Vaio, aka lil’Star. They don’t know I’ve changed yet. there are quite a lot of us being released today, it looks almost like an amnesty. I recognise six of them, but the other thirty or so I’ve never met before. They don’t have the faces of old jail birds, they look mostly like bricklayers, carpenters, factory workers. Surely from the ‘Genoa’ wing, where they put those jailed for the very first time. “You, you...and you...” The guard points at me and the other six that I more or less know. “You come and wait on this side, the others go out first.” As soon as they open the gate and the first ‘worker’ puts their face outside the door, there’s a cry like at the stadium. Me and the other six, tight in a corner, watch them parade out one by one. Every time one gets out you can hear the same loud cry. There’s a guy before me, then I’m finally out. FREEDOM FOR THE WORKERS!!! It’s written with red spray paint on a massive banner outside the prison entry. There was a sea of people, hugging the ones that just got out, their comrades, tears streaming from their eyes. By their conversations I understand that they were arrested three days before, during the March protest. To wait for me there’s only my wife, my son and my mother. While they hug me I look around me: These guys who have done three days inside just because they’ve taken to the streets to ask for work, simply for the right to work, have faces different from mine. The faces of their family and friends are different from those that are now hugging me. They cry and shout in happiness like those who have gone through a bad time and know that it’s now over.
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Mario Guarino moves to London in 2000 at the age of 22 from Italy to study advertising and mass communication at London College. After meeting art photographer Patrick Gorman he starts a course in photography at the Kensington & Chelsea College where subsequently he becomes Patrick's first assistant on a series of high profile assignments. Follows a period of apprenticeship and having assisted a range of international fashion photographers he makes the leap into becoming a free lance photographer with a first publication for The Face magazine. In the following years Mario works on editorial shoots and advertising campaigns for new and established fashion designers gaining the opportunity of travelling extensively and collaborating with a range of international clients in London, Moscow, Milan, Paris,Berlin and Copenhagen. In 2008 his first solo show is inaugurated in Shoreditch, East London at the Maverick Gallery with "Feminal" a controversial personal project on studies of the female body, Identity and Personality which attracted attention well beyond his entourage and a documentary for Sky Italy was shot during the preparation of the event. After that experience, while still shooting fashion, Mario becomes more and more focused on his personal portrait production which leads in 2009 to a collaboration with Bronx Productions to shoot a portraits project of real life Mafia Gangsters turned into actors with the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated movie Gomorrah. The work is based on a series of still photographs and recordings of on set conversations between Mario and the Actors which form a mixed media installation that will be shown in Italy later this year. Mario currently lives and works in London. www.marioguarino.com www.artipolis.com/marioguarino
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