It is not easy to photograph Sicilian religious festivals without falling into easy rhetoric or, worse, into the picturesque, Giuseppe Leone does it – as these two very calibrated photographs well testify – with powerful images that do not follow the slowness that characterizes the paths traditionally taken by the faithful, but seem to be crossed by a heated dynamism. Each one collects in a single shot a story such as that of the girl who looks out at the passage of the statues of the saints as if she wanted to project herself into the arms of the bearers or the one that captures, in a shot enriched by the vertical composition, the men on horseback who open the procession anticipating it with the sound of the drum.