Taliami e te fazzu petra literally "look at me and I’ll turn you into stone" is a reportage set in San Berillo, a historic area in the center of Catania, one of the first red light districts in Europe.

The title of the project is emblematic, inspired by the myth of the Medusa whose face is also on the traditional Trinacria, Sicily’s symbol. The intensity of the gaze of the sex workers recalls precisely that of the Gorgon, who transformed anyone who looked at her into stone.

With this project Di Gregorio sheds new light onto an area which is always overlooked; not only a degraded district, for which a redevelopment was planned many years ago but never completely took place, but a perfect example of integration, where people of all nationalities live. Salvatore Di Gregorio captured the neighbourhood's strengths and weaknesses, contradictions and desire for rebirth.