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.

INTERVIEW

In recent days I was a guest of Tg3 Mondo – RAI TRE to talk about one of my latest assignments, a reportage about the Mau forest, the largest mountain forest in East Africa and the most significant water tank in Kenya: about 130 million people indirectly depend on the rivers originate from the forest. Full interview here, only in Italian.

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

ON ASSIGNMENT

In Mozambique on assignment for the NGO AVSi Foundation and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) to work on a video documentary about the impact of climate change in the country and the strategies adopted to tackle global warming.

TALK

This evening in Turin at the museum of the ‘900 I present my project Evironmental Migrants: The Last Illusion together with Adriano Favole professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Turin.

 

EXHIBITION

My series Female Boxers of Goma exhibited at one of China’s largest photography events, the19th Pingyao International Photography Festival.

EXHIBITION

Great to see my series Boxing Against Violence exhibited at the wonderful setting of the Villa Reale of Monza for the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards.

SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

I am so honoured to be the winner of the Sport category at the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards with my series of portraits titled Boxing Against Violence: the Female Boxers of Goma. Check it out!

 

INTERVIEW

I was invited by presenter Matthew Amroliwala at the BBC World News programme “Global” to talk about my photographic projects (Sony World Photography Awards winners were still not announced when I was live at BBC and I was still a finalist).