Campanica | Monitoring Italy's Campania region around Naples

UNDERREPRESENTED VOICES & AUTHENTIC COMMUNITY STORIES Roman Manfredi’s latest photography exhibition, focuses on the femminielli, a third gender indigenous to traditional Neapolitan culture. For the project headed to the streets of Naples – also stopping by Montevergine, a site of pilgrimage where femmenielli and other queer people attend to worship a shrine of the Black Madonna. "Their presence today is complex, shaped by modern social changes, tourism, and evolving understandings of gender, but they remain an important cultural reference point rather than a relic of the past.” Arresting portraits of Naples’ third-gender population | Dazed Magazine