PHOTO REPORTAGE / VIDEO
ANTI MILITARISM IN SARDINIA
SARDEGNA PRIDE 2017
IRAN FREE
LAND/CULTURES/MIGRATIONS
A video and photographic research on intercultural relations, plural cities and local communities in the inner area of Sardinia; a visual ethnography of human landscape, territories and migrations.
work in progress
Sarule/Nuoro, 2017
SARDINIA IN 4 MOVEMENTS
A long term photographic project focusing on contradictions and social changes that have been taking place in Sardinia in the last decades. The photographic survey aims to explore the landscapes and human activities that characterize some of the contemporary aspects of Sardinia, including: urban peripheries, anthropic presence in the territory, military servitudes, environmental pollution.
IMAGINARY HABITATS
#habitatimmaginari is a intercultural photographic experiment performed during the Girovagando Festival, organized by Theatre en Vol in September 2016 in Sassari. A participatory itinerary addressed to the residents of Sassari’s historic centre with the aim of creating a visual social network on the themes of multicultural coexistence, identity, citizenship. Six large format photographs have been installed in Santa Caterina Square.
Authors: Fabian Volti, Luigi Bosio, Lansana Condé
CROSSING BORDERS
On the trail of the European routes of migrants at the Austro-German border. Trapped in the path of legal recognition and citizenship, migrants crossing the Balkan route find themselves in Fortress Europe. The denial of the right to move and circulate – a right that is still partially granted to us, born on the European side – is the denial of the very human existence, the condemnation of living in a state of depersonalization, where the only identifying element is the belonging to a mass category so well defined by the French media: “sans papier” (without documents).
Reportage: Austro-German border in Freilassing/Salsburg – Refugees firsts reception centre, Graz. November- December 2015. Author: Stefania Muresu
DENTRO E FUORI L'ACCOGLIENZA (INSIDE AND OUTSIDE)
The past years have been marked by the refugees crisis and deaths taking place in the Mediterranean sea. Many are the migrants landing on Italian shores coming from Lybia and fleeing from war, human traffic and violence. Sardinia faces a growth of hosting centers, welcoming over a thousand people especially in the rural areas, where some holiday farms converted their activities into reception centres for refugees and asylum seekers.
Olzai (NU), 2016
(Author Fabian Volti)
MULTIETNICA (MULTIETNIKA)
A photographic observation within the rites of the multi-ethnic communities of Sassari’s city center, on the occasion of the Sacrificial Feast.
Sassari, September 2016
STORIE DI PESCA E RACCONTI DAL MARE (FISHING AND SEA STORIES)
A photographic reportage on the sea crafts in Porto Torres
PAESAGGI ESAUSTI (EXSTAUSTED LANDSCAPES)
A 360- degree observation focusing on what remains indelible, the so called industrial archaeology in the sardinian territories between Porto Torres and Portoscuso. A series of images that describe the abandonment left by the end of the industrial dream.
LUCI A MARE (LIGHTS AT SEA)
Lights at sea is an ethnographic research and a reportage. It consists in a hounded black and white analogueue photographs taken with a 50mm lens, and limiting as much as possible the use of flash. A stylistic choice that was made to highlight the narrow space in the boat and to illuminate night shots only with the light coming from the fishing lamps, in a vision as close al possible to the perceived look. The reportage was exhibited at the MAN Museum of Contemporary Art in Nuoro in year 2014, during a retrospective exhibition dedicated to Robert Capa.
Author: Stefania Muresu
CAMPO ROM (ROMA CAMP)
A photo reportage taken in a Roma camp the day preceding the eviction. A small Roma community, since the arrival of the founders coinciding with the was in Tito’s ex-Yugoslavia, have been marginalized because Gypsies. “Zingaro” is a racist word, like “negro”, “vu cumprà”, “barbarian”. In our everyday language we sometimes use it in expressions like: “a gypsy house”, to say that it is untidy; “Being like a gypsy”, that is, dressed badly and dirty; “I’ll take you away from the gypsies”, to say that they are bad (like the Black Man). Through the local press, the association became aware that the Roma camp of Fertilia, in Alghero, would be evacuated shortly after several municipal resolutions.
LA CAMPAGNA, L'UOMO, L'ANIMALE (THE COUNTRYSIDE, THE SHEEPER, THE ANIMALS)
A photographic and audiovisual long term projecton a rural community that, despite the changes, is able to resist and recognize its identity. A visual experiment aimed at describing the countryside: the men who live it, the sheepfold, the rural families living at the edge of urbanization. The main subjects are the men who work in the agropastoral companies, both traditional and modern, preserving their own style, know-how and culture coming from ancient times.
Author: Fabian Volti, (Sardinia, 2005-2015)
