South Sudan has been facing an unprecedented environmental crisis since 2019, with relentless rain seasons causing widespread flooding and destruction throughout the country, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. The situation is so [...]
The climate crisis is exacerbating the vulnerability of this already unstable country, bringing it ever closer to collapse. It is imperative that immediate action is taken to address the root causes of this crisis and [...]
Kharkiv, The second largest city in Ukraine with 1.5 million people, located in the northeast of the country less than 40 kilometers from the Russian border, was considered a major target for the Russian military [...]
On February 24th, 2022, the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, igniting a violent escalation of the crisis that has plagued the region since 2014. After weeks of deploying their army along the borders, the Russians [...]
Bergamo’s Pandemic Survivors Carry Scars Unseen and Incalculable Plagued by guilt, anger and regrets, those still alive in the hardest hit place in Italy, and perhaps the world, grapple to understand how the virus has [...]
Left Behind is the story of the last, of all those who have been left behind, forgotten by the decrees, by the laws of social and humanitarian aid during the Covid-19 emergency. The Covid-19 pandemic [...]
"We Take the Dead From Morning Till Night" At the moment when the coronavirus was ripping through northern Italy, working on assignment for The New York Times, I gained exclusive access to the Red Cross [...]
In 2019 the biggest civil unrest in Chile's recent history broke out against the increased cost of living and the growing privatization of Sebastian Piñera government. In the last 30 years, neoliberal economic policies have [...]
According to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), the number of Amazon forest fires in 2019 increased by 84% compared to 2018. Rondonia, the western region of Brazil, is one of the most deforested [...]
American Chimera wants to rise questions on the migration phenomenon while challenging the stereotypes related to the illegal migration from Central America to United States. Tijuana, Mexico | November, December 2018 Kentucky, USA | April, [...]
Mirna is a 45-year-old Honduran woman who decided to leave her country of origin with her daughter Mirna-Marely after frequent threats and violence perpetrated against her family. Mirna had a small shop in Colon, Honduras, [...]
Il tempo scorre diversamente da come lo vivi. E’ la quarta dimensione, relativa ed effimera, così difficile da immaginare che ce ne rendiamo conto solo quando la sentiamo scivolare sulla nostra pelle. Disegna la vita [...]
Thousands of migrants have arrived at the US-Mexico border city of Tijuana after traveling more than 4,000 km from their home countries in Central America. Most of them are fleeing persecution, poverty and violence in [...]
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Nakba ("Catastrophe") when in 1948 more than 750.000 Palestinian were forced to leave their native lands. Today in Gaza hundred thousand of refugees still waiting for their right of return. What’s behind [...]
On October and November 2017 I went back to Barcelona, this time to cover the Catalan movement for independence from Spain working for AFP and for the italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. On October 1st, Catalans went to [...]
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan on July 2011 becoming the world newest country as the outcome of an agreement that ended Africa’s longest-running civil war. The independence did not bring conflict in South Sudan [...]
After 22 years of war against the North of the country, which ended in 2005, and a transition phase which lasted five years, in July 2011 South Sudan won its independence, through a national referendum [...]
On December 2016 I went to Sulaymaniyah, a city of Iraqi Kurdistan near the border with Iran, on assignment for an Italian No-Government Organisation to develop a project on the Syrian refugees and the Iraqi [...]
The Libyan revolution began on February 2011, in the wake of the riots that changed the Arab world. In contrast with what happened in Tunisia and in Egypt, in a few weeks the Libyan Revolution [...]
I was in Libya for the first time at the beginning of the civil war, in February 2011. In 2016 I went back to Sirte cover the conflict against the Islamic State. During the war [...]
"Things they carried" shows images of the objects found among the migrants who died trying to crossing the Mediterranean to reach Italy. Fabio Bucciarelli for The New York Times According to UNHCR more than [...]
During May 2014 I've been traveling for the first time in Easter Ukraine to document the conflict between pro-Russian fighters and Ukrainian sodiers. For a month I've been working with the pro-Russian fighters covering the battle in the [...]
The Dream is an emotional journey through the human condition, a state of being devoid of a reference point. It wants to tell the stories, reveal the humanity and show the strength of people who [...]
Dreaming Europe, a body of work whose intimate, subtle portraits document refugees as they find a moment of peace on their long and grueling journey. Lucia De Stefani for TIME Lightbox published on October 6, 2015 [...]