Category archives: News
'Caring for the Planet Starts from the Ground' for IFAD
- Thouraya Lahmer and Aoun Ouni are two villagers from the south of Tunisia. Although they are not policy makers or soil experts, they both contribute to feeding the world. What they do is a reflection of this year's theme of World Soil Day - Caring for the Planet Starts from the Ground. Since 1980[...]
Comment by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Mediterranean crossings over the weekend
- Comment by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on Mediterranean crossings over the weekend Since Friday, we‘ve seen over 6,000 people crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy – bringing the total this year to over 43,000. These massive arrivals and the fact that mo[...]
Filicudi on 1683 Magazine
- Six and a half years ago I decided that my burnt-out sister needed a break from life that was more of an antidote than a holiday. This was not such an easy thing to deliver. A former foreign correspondent, she craved remote, wild, sparsely inhabited terrain to offset her weariness with the modern wo[...]
Migration stories for the British Red Cross on The Guardian
- More than 3,000 migrants have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean in 2016, part of a wider catastrophe that has seen migrant deaths reach their highest ever recorded level this year. While the shipwrecks and drownings have made headlines globally, the violence and exploitation that occur on t[...]
MEDITERRANEAN PHOTO FESTIVAL - Crete, June - September 2016
- Medphoto, the inaugural Mediterranean Photography Festival, will be taking place in the Summer of 2016 in Rethymno, on the island of Crete, Greece. Medphoto extends an invitation to the global photographic community to participate in this dynamic artistic project, designed to be an annual lens-ba[...]
Sony Ambassadors su Sprea Fotografia
- Sono quattro i primi fotografi italiani entrati a far parte del programma internazionale “Sony Global Imaging Ambassadors”, lanciato nel 2014, che vede Sony collaborare con alcuni dei più brillanti e talentuosi artisti contemporanei della fotografia in tutto il mondo, diversi sia per stile sia per p[...]
Sony Global Imaging Ambassadors
- The finest photographers are sought to work with Sony on a local and global level. The Ambassadors include an elite group of photographers who are unique in both stature and international appeal and are selected for their range in style, expertise and artistic charisma. They are carefully chos[...]
Last Stop: Idomeni
- "I see my trip to Idomeni on the Greek - Macedonian border as a turning point in my experience of following and reporting on the Syrian diaspora across the Middle East and Europe. Last year I visited Izmir in Turkey where hundreds of Syrian refugees had gathered at the city's train station. There we[...]
Interview for Huffingtonpost on Greek austerity
- A Photographer's Journey To Capture Greece's Spirit During The Crisis "I personally admire the Greek people for their strong resilience and capacity to keep pushing despite any difficulties." ATHENS, Greece - On April 23, 2010, Greece's then-Prime Minister George Papandreou addressed the worl[...]
Interview for Der Spiegel
- Last year photographer Alfredo D'Amato accompanied two lifeboat-operations of 'Mare Nostrum' off the coast of Italy. In this article he is talking about his time on the lifeboat and the fate of the refugees - and he is explaining why the salvage operations necessarily should be resumed. How pictu[...]
Stranded in Paradise
- From the early 16th century onwards, Portuguese settlers who had come to the new colony of Sao Tome and Principe started importing slave labour from the African mainland to work on the sugar plantations (or rocas) that were spreading across the lush islands straddling the equator off t[...]
Tèlèrama: Making-of d'une photo de une saisissante
- "Le cri" da "Télérama" : making-of d'une photo de une saisissante Un bateau isolé, une mer calme et la mort qui rôde… La photo d'Alfredo D'Amato, photographe italien, illustre la une de notre magazine cette semaine, consacrée au drame des migrants. Mais comment l'a-t-il prise ? Explic[...]