“IL TURISTA E IL VAGABONDO”: LE DISUGUAGLIANZE VISTE CON LA LENTE DELLA SOCIOLOGIA VISUALE

Although incomparably richer than it has ever been before, ours is still a world of tremen- dous deprivation and disturbing inequality. In addition to being composite and irregular, inequality is also “slippery”, both due to the multiplicity of terrains, often inaccessible and unknown in which it is born, and the way it evolves and is perceived. In this work, starting from the images of the national photography competition promoted in 2017 by the NGO Oxfam Italia, those same inequalities made up of numbers and percentages are “brought into focus” through the approach of visual sociology. The interpretative analysis carried out on the images has provided elements to go beyond the external datum, offering the possibility to advance, through a work of perceptual organization, classification, interpretation and attribution of mean- ings, to the discovery and explanation of the deeper meaning of inequalities. What will emerge will be a multidimensional imaginary, consisting not only of poverty and marginalization but also of indifference, loneliness and vulnerability.