TITLE: London Bridge Is Down (Of the Emotional Life of Nations)

London 2022.
The Queen is dead. The Royal sailors, not the elite corps, escort the coffin. The new King follows. The ancient ritual, so out of time, is surprisingly powerful. Like all rituals, made so that the people can see. See that the world stood the shock and is ready to enter the unknown smoothly, peacefully, immediately. Everything flows around the ritual: the procession, the mighty army, the endless queue. People seem hungry for meaning and stability. Only behind their many eyes, as if peeking through somebody's windows, one can catch a hint of it: history's frightening turmoil. It cannot be seen, but it can be felt around the people queuing everywhere like veins of the city: the cold wind of unstoppable change.

AUTHOR: Antonio Denti (Italy)

Antonio Denti is an award-winning news cameraman, in love with still photography.

Born in Catania (Sicily) in 1972, he graduated as a social anthropologist at the University of London ( Goldsmiths' College and SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies - ) but became a cameraman.

He has been working for Reuters since 1998.

He covered conflict and change in Kosovo (1999, 2001, 2008), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Israel (2005 - 2006), Gaza (2005), Lebanon (2006), Tunisia (2011), the death of Pope John Paul II, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, his resignations and the election of Pope Francis, the Tsunami of 2004 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, eruptions of mount Etna, earthquakes in central and northern Italy, the migrant crises in the Mediterranean (2006, 2011, 2015-2019) and in the Balkans (2015), the crisis around Catalonia's bid for independence (2017), the Covid-19 pandemics (2020), Pope Francis' pilgrimage to Iraq (2021).

In 2018, he won the RTS (Royal Television Society) Journalism Award for Camera Operator of the Year.

In 2019, he won the ''Maria Grazia Cutuli'' international journalism award (national section).