Octavia-Ferdinando Scianna

Born in 1943, Ferdinando Scianna is a Sicilian photographer who primarily focuses on capturing the life of his community. In addition to working as a photographer, he also works as a journalist for Fashion magazines and has be featured in and published several books.  His photographs reveal  a horizontal directional pattern. Typically, the horizontal pattern is most present as a subtle line created by a particular object. The images below reveal horizontal lines created by a bench, a gun, a small ledge on the wall the woman is leaning on, a line created by a shadow and lastly the step behind the twins.