My project Environmental MIgrants, The Last Illusion is featured in UNESCO magazine. This project, supported and financed also by IOM, the UN Migration Agency, is the culmination of five years of research started in 2011.
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TALK
Tonight at the Franco Parenti Theater in Milan, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day, I will talk about border walls as a prominent part of today’s global landscape. In 1989 there were 15 border walls worldwide, today there are 70. With my new project “A Wall In-Between” I follow the international migration routes linking this modern obsession for border control with climate change and environmental migration, to offer through photography a glimpse of what our planet will be in the next future. Today, border walls no longer divide different ideologies, but the rich from the poor and there will be 120 million new poor by 2030 in the world due to climate change (source UN).
“We risk a ‘climate apartheid’ scenario where the wealthy pay to escape overheating, hunger and conflict while the rest of the world is left to suffer.” Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. More info here.
EXHIBITION
Amazing opening last night in Modica at the former Convento del Carmine. Thanks to Condominio Fotografico and to Fondazione Teatro Garibaldi. The exhibition is open until January 15th. #environmentalmigrantsthelastillusion #ongoingproject
EXHIBITION
Tomorrow at 6.00 pm in the beautiful setting of the former Monastery of the Carmine of Modica in Sicily I will be at the opening of my exhibition Environmental Migrants: The Last Illusion. I hope to see you there if you are around! #climatechange #environmentalmigrants #exhibition #Modica #Sicily
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Working on my ongoing project A Wall In Between. In the picture two migrants traveling on a freight train heading towards Idomeni, a border village between Greece and Macedonia, where a border fence of about 13km was built by the Macedonian government to stop the flow of migrants from Greece.
EXHIBITION
Bergamo Photo Festival – Fotografica 2018 its opening this weekend. Join us this Saturday for the guided tours.
PUBLICATION
My ongoing project A Wall in Between on Vision Magazine, China.
EXHIBITION
Environmental Migrants: The Last Illusion exhibited at Kiosko Alfonso at La Coruña, Spain. Thanks to #Acampa and the municipality of #LaCoruña.
NEW ONGOING PROJECT
It is already some weeks I am working here in Mexico on my new ongoing project A Wall In Between. I am now in Benjamin Hill, a town in the state of Sonora. In the picture a Central American migrant climbs onto a freight train headed north to the United States. Many of the migrants making this journey are robbed or assaulted by gangs who control the train tops, and others fall asleep and tumble down, losing limbs or perishing under the wheels of the trains. More news and updates coming soon!
NEW ONGOING PROJECT
I am working in Mexico on a new ongoing project. In the picture an illegal Central American migrant comes out of a manhole where he lives, along the road that flanks the border between Mexico and the United States of America, waiting for the right moment to cross the border. More news and updates coming soon!
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