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Marco Casino – Staff Riding

Marco Casino Staff Riding [ EPF 2014 FINALIST ] ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Katlehong is one of the largest townships in South Africa and has played a key role in the history of the struggle ag…

via burn magazine: http://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2014/10/marco-casino-staff-riding/

Associated with economic stagnation, degradation and the logic of life on the road, led to the birth of train surfing as a social phenomenon. The spectacular and risky act of train surfing becomes the framework to tell the Katlehong’s young people social fabric. This place has been the epicenter of the antiapartheid’s guerrillas

October 31, 2014
Horse Racing Fades in Italy

Horse Racing Fades in Italy

Over the last decade, many of Italy’s racetracks have closed, taking with them thousands of jobs and memories of a once-heralded sport.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/06/horse-racing-fades-in-italy/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

The immaculate racetracks of Naples loomed like coliseums in the mind of Marco Casino.

June 6, 2014
Marco Casino: Documenting Staff riding in Katlehong, South Africa

Link: Marco Casino: Documenting Staff riding in Katlehong, South Africa « The Leica Camera

In this interview, Marco Casino, a finalist in the Leica Talent Italy contest 2012 and close partner of Leica Italia, retraces the steps of “staff riding”, his latest work done in South Africa. It has just been awarded the first prize in the Short Feature category by the jury of the World Press Photo Multimedia Contest.

May 1, 2014
Marco Casino, From Train Surfing to Townships

Link: Marco Casino, From Train Surfing to Townships | PROOF

For Marco Casino, the idea began when he came across an amateur video about the world’s 10 most dangerous sports. Train surfing, which is literally surfing on top of trains, was the first sport featured.

April 1, 2014