Bryony, 27 years old, hoop artist from London. She came in Turin to study in the globally known Flic circus school and right after a few month she had to lock herself in the house for the Covid pandemic. Her room became her train place and a sort of sanctuary where she had explored a new project about her relationship with obscure and movement.
Vittoria hugs her younger sister. As a child she always wanted her clothes, her photographs and her toys. She lived with this secret inside her all her childhood. When the time came, her sister supported and accompanied her throughout the transition.
Donatella Di Cola has a small factory in her house that sell butterflies, cockroachs and larvae for scenographic use and animal food. She is based in centre Italy, Colleferro (Rome). Insects are the big passion of her life.
Nepal. Kagati Village, Kathmandu Valley, November 2019 The small farming community of Kagati Gaun, in the Nuwakot district, is located in the hills a few kilometers away from Kathmandu. Just a fifteen minutes' drive from the Sisdole landfill. In summer, with the heat and humidity of the monsoon season, the foul exhalation of the waste collection site reaches here. A report published in January 2020 by the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology identified ten villages particularly vulnerable to the side effects of the landfill's proximity. Kagati is on the list, although there are communities in worse situations. The problem is not just the smell. Many farmers complain about the impact on agriculture and the death of livestock. Now the inhabitants of the area are waiting for the government to authorize the opening of a new landfill on another territory, and for Sisdole, which reached its maximum capacity as early as 2016, to be closed once and for all.
Nepal, Bhaktapur Brick and Tile Industry, Kathmandu Valley, December 2019
A young worker in front of the “oven” of the factory, from which he brings out 2600 baked bricks every day.
Around Kathmandu there are dozens and dozens of brick kilns, and their chimneys release into the atmosphere particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide, which are harmful to health. In addition of course to large quantities of CO2, since they are mainly coal-fueled. According to an estimate by the Department of the Environment, there are 125 plants throughout the valley (but there are many more that are not registered). Of these, more than 90% still use obsolete and highly polluting technologies, despite the government updating the standards in 2018 and requiring the installation of emission control devices. Before the 2015 earthquake, many licenses in the Kathmandu Valley had to be withdrawn, but the reconstruction emergency caused the stricter measures to be suspended.
Today, with a booming brick industry, Nepal will have to deal with the environmental impact of the sector with greater urgency. Among the initiatives to promote a "clean" industry we find the one promoted by ICIMOD, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, which is committed to spreading a more sustainable brick baking technique that reduces harmful emissions and the amount of coal needed.
Harshita Sah, 12 years old. During the last big flooding in Janakpur that lasted one months she had to go to school taking off her shoes and walk with the water over the knees. The thing she was afraid the most was snakes and leeches that were in the water. The Terai is one of the region in Nepal most affected by flooding.
Coast Guard_ sx Pietro Carosia (he came from Palermo to the island at the beginning of March, when 6200 people arrived, he's the commander in chief in Lampedusian coast guard) / dx Luciano Puntorieri (he's the coast guard's video-reporter, he reports the coast guard rescue accion)
Daria and her husband, the kalashnikov teacher at the para-military camp and a succesful lawyer in the normal life. they're very scared and prepared about the Rusian invasion � Diana Bagnoli
GOD BLESS NASH STREET artistic residence in Wilson, North Carolina The Bible Belt is an informal region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism plays a strong role in society and politics. Wilson is a small town, everything closes quite early and the downtown area has the mysterious charm of an abandoned beauty, with all its grand empty houses. Churches, however, are never empty. In fact Wilson counts more churches than grocery stores, about 80 throughout the city, most of them around the main street. Churches are strongly alive and are central to the life and spirit of the communities. Mexican immigrated family
The artist Luigi Halo painted a wall in a beautiful empty abandoned space in Turin, Italy, that doesn’t exist anymore. I was fascinated from that wall and I asked to make him a portrait with the same pattern on himself.
The last Torero of Barcelona. Bullfighting was banned in the Spanishautonomous community of Catalonia by a vote of the Catalan Parliament in July 2010, supported by animal rights activists.
Giulia Sardella is a 14 years old gymnast that has trained at home 3 hours a day, in her terrace, after school - always at home. This has been her only social life for several months.
Duyen Lecce is a 15 years old gymnast that has trained at home 3 hours a day, in her garden, after school - always at home. This has been her only social life for several months.
Circus artist and couple, Micol Veglia and Andrea Cerrato, have started to work together during the lockdown, experiencing a new way of being a couple. They shot a duo at home that has gone viral and for the first time they will work together as artists.
The children of Dr. Abel Tobias, member of the Henry Reeve Brigade, playing in their patio in La Havana.
Abel spent most of his life on a mission away from his family to serve his country as a doctor and to ensure a better future for his children. When Abel Junior was born, his second child, he was in Monzambico and returned to live with them only three years later.
Pushkar Sah, 14 years old and his sister Durga Sah, 10 years old, at home after school.
We meet Pushkar at dawn on the last day of Chhath Puja, in a village where he is with his family for the celebrations. We don't go unnoticed: we are the only westerners who wander around Janakpur and its surroundings on the days of the Hindu festival. Pushkar knows we're journalists, but he's the one asking the questions. He invites us to his home in the city, where we meet his sisters. He wants to know about the reportage, especially asking very specific information about climate change: acidification of the oceans, melting of the cryosphere, danger of returning pathogens buried under the ice... He complains that his teachers are not sufficiently educated on the subject. He looks for information in the newspapers and follows BBC news. He's never heard of Greta Thunberg, but when he grows up he wants to be a scientist or an astronaut: “We need to find another planet to live on – he says – I don't think we can save the Earth.”
A woman hosted at CASA Nepal, a safe refuge in Kathmandu for women fleeing gender violence. CASA Nepal, founded by the NGO Apeiron, hosts up to 35 women and children who arrive from the most remote districts of Nepal. Every day it helps them regain strength and self-esteem, with a holistic psychological approach and through income-generating activities.