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Alessia Rollo 2

Apr 03, 2020 - Alessia Rollo

I’ve started to work on Fata Morgana in 2015 because as photographer I was feeling deeply irritated by a picture that show the body of a Syrian baby boy on a beach in the failed aim to reach Europe.

 

So, I decided to set up other photos from my point of view and esthetic: for the very first picture I took I’ve used some watermelons to speak metaphorically about people who are fleeing their homes in search of a better life. It was an attempt to make people think about the content of the scene without explode the sufferance of human beings.