Author archives: alfredodamato
Mare Nostrum, Rescue at sea
- Like so many refugees before them, the desperate men, women and children at sea that day were lucky to have made it into Italian waters at all. Their 18-hour voyage on the Mediterranean was fraught with danger, and for hundreds just like them it had ended in disaster. Now, having been sp[...]
A mother of two, forced into exile
- LAVRION CAMP, Greece — Jihan is one of millions who have fled the violence in Syria. A mother of two, forced into exile. Like many, she escaped with her husband and children to Turkey, where they boarded a boat and risked everything during a treacherous journey to safety. Unlike most, she is blind[...]
Mare Nostrum
- Si stima siano circa 500 i migranti e i rifugiati morti nel Mediterraneo dall’inizio del 2014, nonostante gli enormi sforzi sostenuti delle autorità italiane e dalla Marina Militare e l’aiuto costante prestato dalle imbarcazioni private. UNHCR ribadisce la necessità che i governi forniscano con [...]
Intervista per 'Punto di svista'
- Hai studiato in una scuola di fotografia in Inghilterra, e precisamente hai diretto i tuoi studi nei riguardi della fotografia documentaria. Ci puoi dire quanto i tuoi studi hanno contribuito allo sviluppo del tuo percorso fotografico? ' ...Ho iniziato da autodidatta, ma dopo un po’ di anni [...]
Angola on National Geographic Travel
- We rolled down a sliver of red dirt road, weeds and sticks cracking under our tires, in search of an old slave port that long ago vanished in mangrove jungle. This out-of-the-way track made me nervous because it was exactly where the travel advisories warned visitors not to go in Angola, a country[...]