Marco Gualazzini: Resilient (Hardcover)

Contrasto

ISBN 10: 8869657663 / ISBN 13: 9788869657665

Verlag: Contrasto, Rome, 2019

Beschreibung

Hardcover. Resilient is the first book by Marco Gualazzini, a photographer who collaborates with the most important national and international magazines and whose work is represented by the Contrasto Agency. Resilient presents his reportages made in Africa from 2009 to 2018. The texts by Domenico Quirico and Gianluigi Colin enrich the volume. Resilience is the ability of a system to adapt to change. Marco Gualazzini tries to tell precisely this ability of Africa, aiming his goal in search of stories to tell with images. His research began by investigating the relationship between religion, witchcraft and mental illness in eastern Congo, where only one psychiatric hospital existed when the service was set up and where those suffering from mental illness are still considered a demon. He then dealt with mining exploitation that always involves the Congo, the war in Mali, rape as a weapon of war (15,000 women are raped every year in the Congo), Islamist infiltrations in sub-Saharan Africa and policies for receiving refugees. in action by the very poor Uganda. Gualazzini then recounted the conditions of South Sudan, of Somalia, probably one of the most inaccessible countries, where foreigners (and government officials) are Shabaab's targets. The last work is from 2018, and testifies to the serious humanitarian crisis underway along the Lake Ciad basin due to desertification as a result of climate change. As Gianluigi Colin underlines in his text that closes the volume, "there are stories of women raped in Congo, of Somali girls in a perennial journey to escape from hunger, of girls in the refugee camps in Chad, but they are also stories about the cruel militiamen in the north of Mali, the members of Ganda Koy, or the "Children of the earth" (they made thousands of deaths among the Tuaregs), with machine guns in their hands as they wear a shirt of a soccer team as a symbol of paradoxical respectability. Or, here are the stories of the desperate journey of the people of the Nuba Mountains, in an attempt to escape the bombings and massacres of the Sudanese government. " Page after page, the images cover and testify "almost an entire turn of the Continent", accompanied by long captions that are real parallel stories, for an immediate contextualization of the situations and events immortalized by Marco Gualazzini's camera. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9788869657665

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Marco Gualazzini: Resilient (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Contrasto, Rome
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 8869657663
• ISBN-13: 9788869657665
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Quello sguardo così innocente, e al tempo stesso così lontano, sembra interrogare ognuno di noi, mettendoci di fronte alla nostra indifferenza. Un'immagine silenziosa che si tramuta in urlo, che diventa monito.

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A definition of Resilience from a psychological perspective,”the ability to cope positively with traumatic events, to positively reorganise one’s life in the face of difficulty, to rebuild oneself while remaining sensitive to the opportunities life offers, without losing one’s own identity. When faced with adversity, resilient people are able – despite everything – to handle it constructively, to breathe new life into their existence, and even to turn their misfortune into something positive.”

It is important to provide a reminder of exactly what resilience is, to grasp why, and to what extent, it’s the very best title Marco Gualazzini could possibly have given to his first, and significant, published volume. You’ll gain a better understanding still by looking at the photographs – or rather experiencing the photographs Gualazzini offers us, with their splendid captions that contextualise the shots and the stories. Delve into the stories, observe the images, absorb them. You’ll immediately realise we’re in an immensely difficult environment: difficult to live in, to imagine, to conceive, and for this very reason, a major source of food for thought, pause, self-analysis and – if you choose – improvement.

Gualazzini takes us into that side of Africa we prefer to ignore, delete from our minds and our conscience. He shows us eyes we’d prefer not to meet, situations we can’t imagine, circumstances we’d like to believe don’t concern us and that vanish from our hearts because they’re so far away. But they’re moving ever closer, and one of the significant merits of this book is to sharpen our sensibility to the wretched fate of these children, men and women, and to prompt at least a moment of reflection on those spotless, privileged lives of ours we’re always complaining about. Seen from this point of view, this is not a book of photographs, and Gualazzini is not so much a photographer as a witness, a messenger, an ambassador bearing a message of huge importance.