Stromboli is a small island in the Thyrrhenian Sea, one of the seven Aeolian Islands, off the north coast of Sicily, containing an active volcano: the Mount Stromboli.
Iddu, or him, as the locals refer to the volcano, is a living being, breathing and transforming itself, with a disturbing, supernatural presence.

Stromboli is also a 1950 Italian-American film directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring Ingrid Bergman as Karin. The drama is considered a classic example of Italian neorealism and is a devastating portrait of a woman's existential crisis, set against the stunning and threatening backdrop of a volcanic island.

According to Homer's epic The Odyssey, Aeolus, the ancient Greek God of the Winds, lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Ulysses (Odysseus) and his crew. Aeolus stowed winds in a sack and gave them to Ulysses for blowing his boat back home to Ithaca but the crew grew suspicious and jealous of Ulysses, thinking that the sack contained treasures he wasn’t planning to share. They opened the sack releasing the winds and blowing them back to Aeolus.

The pictures I took during my summer holidays on the island in 1997 lay in a drawer until they were resurrected, nearly twenty years later, and manipulated with Photoshop.