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In recent years thousands of refugees fleeing from war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East have gathered in the city of Calais and in the municipality of Grande-Synthe (Dunkirk) - located in the northern area of France - using these places as a stopover point before trying the entrance to Great Britain in the hope of a better life. They have built makeshift shelters with ropes, pieces of wood, sheets, plastic sheeting, sticks, etc. So real fields called "jungles" were born where people who cannot reach England are forced to live for months in poor conditions, without electricity and lying in tents in the mud. The work accomplished through instant films shows some of those tents who nevertheless remain the only sign of the dignity that migrants try not to miss: in their colors, in the way they are arranged, personalized and decorated there is the wish for normality, the frustration caused by unexpected difficulties and the desire to regain a semblance of intimacy.
Some of my work have been exhibited in the PAN-Palazzo Arti Napoli (Italy), Castel dell’ Ovo (Naples, Italy), Biennal of Bibbiena (Italy), Palm Spring Photo Festival (California), Tel Aviv Photo Fair (Israel).
I regularly publishing in the National and International magazines, including Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Internazionale, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, New York Daily News.
My researches have been set in Italy, Romania, Tunisia, Egypt, Poland, Ukraine, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and France telling stories related to current issues.
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In recent years thousands of refugees fleeing from war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East have gathered in the city of Calais and in the municipality of Grande-Synthe (Dunkirk) - located in the northern area of France - using these places as a stopover point before trying the entrance to Great Britain in the hope of a better life. They have built makeshift shelters with ropes, pieces of wood, sheets, plastic sheeting, sticks, etc. So real fields called "jungles" were born where people who cannot reach England are forced to live for months in poor conditions, without electricity and lying in tents in the mud. The work accomplished through instant films shows some of those tents who nevertheless remain the only sign of the dignity that migrants try not to miss: in their colors, in the way they are arranged, personalized and decorated there is the wish for normality, the frustration caused by unexpected difficulties and the desire to regain a semblance of intimacy.
About author:
Born and currently based in Naples, Italy. Thanks to a scholarship I studied one year in Paris at the “Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot“. In 2007 I started working as a contributor and a photographer for several Italian newspapers. In 2009 I graduated in Sociology at the “Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II” with a dissertation in journalism, in which I analysed the different slant between newspapers Le Monde and Corriere della Sera. In 2010 I started studying on the MA Photojournalism programme at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli where I got my degree with honours.Some of my work have been exhibited in the PAN-Palazzo Arti Napoli (Italy), Castel dell’ Ovo (Naples, Italy), Biennal of Bibbiena (Italy), Palm Spring Photo Festival (California), Tel Aviv Photo Fair (Israel).
I regularly publishing in the National and International magazines, including Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Internazionale, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, New York Daily News.
My researches have been set in Italy, Romania, Tunisia, Egypt, Poland, Ukraine, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and France telling stories related to current issues.
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