A photo exhibition...
...for the price of a blanket
LAST SHOW:
Ennio Flaiano Library, via Monte Ruggero 39 (a few steps from metro B), from 5 to 21 December 2016
During the fifteen days of the exhibition it was possibleto donatesome blankets (in good condition) later donated to the many winter activities of theItalian Red Cross in favor of the vulnerable.
"Invisible Humanity"
Portraits of homeless
Photographs taken from 2009 to 2015 between Rome and Prague, which portray a microscopic aspect of the variegated world of the homeless, made up of often divided and distinct realities, other times amalgamated with each other, and within these micro worlds there are different individuals, from the extra-community who is unable to integrate, to the alcoholic, the mentally ill, the desperate, the man who for various reasons has no place to live.
Some of them have the eyes of those who have lost hope, others don't have enough sense to have hope, others do it by choice, and the latter are the most interesting ones, since they are able to put us in front of a seemingly absurd, a concept of freedom that is difficult to understand in a society that is often ready to trade its freedom for even a semblance of security.
"Hope men walking"
Migrants and transit camps
Photographs taken in 2014 in some "irregular" transit camps in Rome and its province before being dismantled by public order.
These photos portray the faces and expressions of the "transitants" or "walkers", migrant populations from Africa to Northern Europe via Italy.
As can be seen, the "transitants", mainly of African origin, reproduce in their "bidon ville", habits and customs abandoned in their native land: houses made of beams, and remedied pieces, old unmade outdoor beds, rough terrain, pylons, dilapidated buildings, laundry hanging from electric cables, food cooked with alcohol stoves , so as to transform a small piece of the Roman suburbs into a "corner of Africa", only in appearance, without control.
"Sons of Afghanistan"
Portraits of Afghan children
Photographs taken on board a military vehicle between 2015 and 2016 in Afghanistan.
Many of the Afghan children portrayed met the moving vehicles to greet us, but many, too many, came to ask us for "water" or "bread", often during a frantic race, later christened "the water race". ; Few people know that in Afghanistan 20% of the population controls 100% of the available water and that 25% of children die due to lack of water purification or even lack of it. Children, in a land where the definition of poverty cannot be limited to material poverty alone, are the most vulnerable subjects, at risk not only of famine and infectious diseases, but also of being recruited as "child soldiers", of being traded part of family members or orphanages, or used as a conduit for kamikaze attacks.
"Right-less women"
Afghan women in daily life
Photographs taken on board a military vehicle between 2015 and 2016 in Afghanistan.
Pashtun women, (ethnic-linguistic group that predominantly inhabits theAfghanistan eastern and southern and thePakistan), with their behavior, they hold the honor and pride of the entire family, and the head of the family imposes a semi-cloistered conduct on them. In rural areas, a woman's transgression is paid for with the dishonor of her entire family, and in some cases even with her own life. Most women in prisons are guilty of simply "leaving home" in order to escape violence by their husband, or as a result of "reactions" against the husband himself. Very often, the only escape route for women is precisely prison, where paradoxically they manage to find a "surrogate" of freedom, while others, at extremes, prefer to take their own lives.
"Drawing Home"
Drawings of children about to leave their war-torn country
Drawings on A3 format created by a small group of Afghan children in 2015, during an international protection service performed in Herat in favor of Afghan interpreters and their families.
During the service, the soldiers of the Italian contingent in Herat have guaranteed a trip to Italy to the interpreters who have worked for years in favor of the coalition, and who for security reasons have preferred to leave their land together with their family.
The children of these interpreters, while waiting before the flight, were entertained by military personnel (Army, Air Force and Red Cross Military Corps) with colored pencils and A3 sheets, in which they depicted what they were about to abandon, from their conception of "home" to the tanks to the military vehicles they saw on the streets every day
