Calabria is a frontier region that knows well the pain of living constantly on her outward skin flavor of good-byes. He also knows the ghost of arrivals, those in the boats of hope, which rest on its shores with their cargo of desperate lives. Arrivals these, which are experienced with bitterness and intolerance because, thanks to the constant blame the media, many contemporaries were convinced that immigrants can not be an opportunity, but a new pattern of mockery and denigration.
Several times in the countries of Reggio cross foreigners, mostly Africans, Romanians, Kurds and other ethnic groups. Talking to them not only discover that many are graduates or professionals, but is aware of cultures as diverse as fascinating and worthy, like all others, to be respected and appreciated. The riots that marked the days of hot January Rosarno not come from nothing. The anger has simply run its course and date is not imploded but the frustration exploded in an inexorable. Despite the migration belongs to the history of the South, today, we can really understand what it means to emigrate? We have no idea of \u200b\u200bthe flavor you get when you leave the land, cross the desert, you embark on ships that have nothing solid, if not despair? Everything for a dream: the hope of a better future for themselves and their families. A hope which feeds while you put together the money to start and continue until the plow the sea.
We talked about this with Andrea Scarfo, who is presenting around Italy for his photographic exhibition, Magna Italy, made in the aftermath of riots in the country of the Plain of Gioia Tauro. Some of his photographs were included in the archive of renowned national news agencies, while others have earned him a special mention at the international competition "From A to B" bandit Euroalter in collaboration with Youthmedia.
Andrea, his is a report from the depth value and not just sociological; realization led her to meet with a very hard reality. What is the atmosphere we breathed in Rosario and who wanted to capture in his photos?
The cornerstone of journalistic work is the ability to cut oneself off from your way of seeing things in order to return a picture as as close to reality. With this in mind I tried to portray the reality of Rosarno. Some photos, for example, show glimpses of the town which is a bit 'symbol' unfinished Calabrian ', I say this because the features are common to many places: the multi-storey residential buildings of that height without articulated external finishes, it are a prime example! The exhibition was housed in the Biblioteca Civica in Tauranga, I received several schools, so I got to ask how many children they think they can grow in such an environment and they respond 'messy inside', they said everything.
Magna Italy was hosted in many regions. As was accepted in Calabria and reaction that has managed to inspire in contexts other than our own?
The exhibition was presented in very different contexts: from north to south, and in other cultural and social contexts. No one was indifferent! In Tauranga, the country in the heart of the plain of Gioia Tauro, the University of the Third Age Lord told me: 'Even when we only eat what we picked oranges
!' This is why the simple people is not adverse to the African workers: we recognize in them and in their efforts. In Mantua, however, I was asked 'what can we do?'. I reply that we must keep in contact to create a network of solidarity, not only in words but in deeds, that is why with the Centre for Migrants Rosarno go around Italy to ask for help.
To achieve this coverage in the places she visited a shelter for seasonal workers when they now had decided to leave Rosarno. What was it?
When I finished I cried. With photos, a cool head, I try to tell that Africans had until then worked and remuneration could cook, yet the cold and the humidity made them chronically ill in! Another issue that I face, telling places where they lived, is the lack of support, solidarity and friendship from Italy of the institutions. We think that Africans had no electricity or running water or sewage, this leads to the absolute lack of hygiene!
Being committed and creative person she has ever wondered what could improve the situation and what measures should have been put into practice?
Since everything has been unleashed because of the sincerity of Africans who have decided not to submit to the harassment of those who claim to control territory and have been listening to this and consideration, I believe it is necessary solidarity of ordinary people. Propose, then, with even more force to respect and enforce the laws. For example set a price to the producer of citrus fairer, to work by providing regular and as required by law for seasonal workers, a real housing for them. Are not new ideas, is simply the discovery of what was right was doing. Future, then, that all who receive contributions from Calabria laborers to work to drop the dummy. Not only! It is also appropriate that the unions autodenunciassero as guilty of this mechanism. We know that in these parts the 'Ndrangheta is the director of all things, thus proposing only justice and the law we can be actively engaged in combat.
Published in issue 44 of MezzoEuro on sale from November 6, 2010
Several times in the countries of Reggio cross foreigners, mostly Africans, Romanians, Kurds and other ethnic groups. Talking to them not only discover that many are graduates or professionals, but is aware of cultures as diverse as fascinating and worthy, like all others, to be respected and appreciated. The riots that marked the days of hot January Rosarno not come from nothing. The anger has simply run its course and date is not imploded but the frustration exploded in an inexorable. Despite the migration belongs to the history of the South, today, we can really understand what it means to emigrate? We have no idea of \u200b\u200bthe flavor you get when you leave the land, cross the desert, you embark on ships that have nothing solid, if not despair? Everything for a dream: the hope of a better future for themselves and their families. A hope which feeds while you put together the money to start and continue until the plow the sea.
We talked about this with Andrea Scarfo, who is presenting around Italy for his photographic exhibition, Magna Italy, made in the aftermath of riots in the country of the Plain of Gioia Tauro. Some of his photographs were included in the archive of renowned national news agencies, while others have earned him a special mention at the international competition "From A to B" bandit Euroalter in collaboration with Youthmedia.
Andrea, his is a report from the depth value and not just sociological; realization led her to meet with a very hard reality. What is the atmosphere we breathed in Rosario and who wanted to capture in his photos?
The cornerstone of journalistic work is the ability to cut oneself off from your way of seeing things in order to return a picture as as close to reality. With this in mind I tried to portray the reality of Rosarno. Some photos, for example, show glimpses of the town which is a bit 'symbol' unfinished Calabrian ', I say this because the features are common to many places: the multi-storey residential buildings of that height without articulated external finishes, it are a prime example! The exhibition was housed in the Biblioteca Civica in Tauranga, I received several schools, so I got to ask how many children they think they can grow in such an environment and they respond 'messy inside', they said everything.
Magna Italy was hosted in many regions. As was accepted in Calabria and reaction that has managed to inspire in contexts other than our own?
The exhibition was presented in very different contexts: from north to south, and in other cultural and social contexts. No one was indifferent! In Tauranga, the country in the heart of the plain of Gioia Tauro, the University of the Third Age Lord told me: 'Even when we only eat what we picked oranges
!' This is why the simple people is not adverse to the African workers: we recognize in them and in their efforts. In Mantua, however, I was asked 'what can we do?'. I reply that we must keep in contact to create a network of solidarity, not only in words but in deeds, that is why with the Centre for Migrants Rosarno go around Italy to ask for help.
To achieve this coverage in the places she visited a shelter for seasonal workers when they now had decided to leave Rosarno. What was it?
When I finished I cried. With photos, a cool head, I try to tell that Africans had until then worked and remuneration could cook, yet the cold and the humidity made them chronically ill in! Another issue that I face, telling places where they lived, is the lack of support, solidarity and friendship from Italy of the institutions. We think that Africans had no electricity or running water or sewage, this leads to the absolute lack of hygiene!
Being committed and creative person she has ever wondered what could improve the situation and what measures should have been put into practice?
Since everything has been unleashed because of the sincerity of Africans who have decided not to submit to the harassment of those who claim to control territory and have been listening to this and consideration, I believe it is necessary solidarity of ordinary people. Propose, then, with even more force to respect and enforce the laws. For example set a price to the producer of citrus fairer, to work by providing regular and as required by law for seasonal workers, a real housing for them. Are not new ideas, is simply the discovery of what was right was doing. Future, then, that all who receive contributions from Calabria laborers to work to drop the dummy. Not only! It is also appropriate that the unions autodenunciassero as guilty of this mechanism. We know that in these parts the 'Ndrangheta is the director of all things, thus proposing only justice and the law we can be actively engaged in combat.
Published in issue 44 of MezzoEuro on sale from November 6, 2010
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