Editor Maria Chiara Di Trapani
Design by Michela Palermo
Printed in September 2022
ISBN 978-88-947117-0-7
First edition of 750

A limited-edition selection of 12 images from Sicilia, the quarterly magazine published by the Sicily Region’s tourism office through S.F. Flaccovio between 1953 and 1982. Conceived as both a promotional and cultural publication, Sicilia brought together photography, illustration, graphic design, literature, and reportage to construct a rich and multifaceted portrait of the island.

Across nearly three decades, the magazine developed a distinctive visual language, combining experimental layouts with contributions by photographers, artists, writers, and designers. Rather than presenting Sicily through a single image or fixed identity, its pages moved between archaeology and contemporary life, rural landscapes and urban scenes, popular traditions, architecture, craftsmanship, and everyday gestures.

Cartoline di Sicilia revisits this remarkable archive through a selection of twelve postcard-sized reproductions. The series includes striking magazine covers alongside photographs and illustrations that reflect the breadth of Sicilia’s visual research and the changing ways in which the island was represented throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

Removed from the original pages of the magazine and presented as individual objects, the images invite a new encounter with this editorial heritage. The postcard format recalls both travel and correspondence, extending the original project’s relationship to circulation while transforming archival material into something intimate, portable, and shareable.

Printed on natural paper crafted from discarded residues of leather production, the Cartoline di Sicilia collection has a distinctive tactile quality and a soft, velvety surface. The choice of material reinforces the physical character of the edition, bringing together archival research, graphic culture, and contemporary publishing in a small-format collection dedicated to Sicily’s extraordinary visual history.