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…
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
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.
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.
