refugees

A Lecco si combatte il razzismo

Oggi migliaia di persone si sono ritrovate a Roma, provenienti da tutta Italia, per sfilare in corteo contro il razzismo.

Io questa mattina ho tenuto un seminario in un istituto superiore di Lecco, e per due ore ho raccontato il mio lavoro sulle migrazioni. Davanti a me i ragazzi di IIIA e IIIB indirizzo CAT dell’Istituto Bovara di Lecco, accompagnati dalle prof Assunta Limardi e Maria Di Palma. Una platea di ragazzi attenti e scossi, visibilmente, dopo aver ascoltato "The True Journey" direttamente dalla voce del protagonista. 

E nel pomeriggio, sempre a Lecco, l'amministrazione comunale ha premiato 180 richiedenti asilo che quest'estate hanno riqualificato lo stadio comunale ed i parchi con il loro impegno gratuito e spontaneo. Una presa di posizione chiara e limpida contro l'assurda decisione di Regione Lombardia di penalizzare proprio i comuni che impiegano i richiedenti asilo nella manutenzione del verde pubblico. 

Ed allora penso di essere stata fortunata, dopo tutto il mio peregrinare, ad essere approdata qui, in questa città che non mi fa sentire sola nella mia battaglia. 

E' vero, anche oggi piove. Piove senza tregua ormai da due settimane qui, Salvini è ancora lì a far danno, eppure io, questa sera, riesco soltanto a sorridere.

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"The True Journey" con la 1F dell'Istituto Parini di Lecco

Prosegue il ciclo di seminari nelle scuole per l’A.S. 2017/18. Sabato 21 Aprile, dalle 9 alle 11, Romina Vinci ha presentato il suo lavoro alla classe 1F dell’Istituto Superiore di Secondo Grado “Parini” di Lecco, grazie all’interessamento della Prof.ssa Maria Oggioni. . Toccante la testimonianza di Lamin, che ha raccontato “Il Vero Viaggio” di un migrante.

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Romina Vinci's exhibition "MY FRIEND" at Ferentino Foto Festival

This Friday Romina Vinci opens her  exhibition: "MY FRIEND - a bordo di Nave Sirio" at Ferentino Foto Festival, Italy. 

"My Friend" is a project that Romina made in April 2014 during an experience with the Italian Navy during the Mare Nostrum operation. She was two weeks on board of "Sirius Ship" patrolling the length and breadth of the Mediterranean, and I have assisted in the rescue of 1,154 migrants.

The photographic work documenting the phases of therelief, from when the survivors are rescued by boats, conducted on board the ship and assisted, until the time when they are transferred to the Coast Guard patrol boats to reach the port of Sicilian coast: Pozzallo ( RG) and Porto Empedocle (AG). The rescued migrants were mainly Somalis, Nigerians, Malians, Eritreans, but most Syrians who crossed the Lebanon, Egypt and embarked from Libya to escape the war.

"My Friend" is how, relief and rescue workers, they called each other. The project wants to show the issue of migration from a perspective that goes beyond the sterile calculation of numbers and figures that is rampant in the political and cultural debate, to put the accent on the centrality of human life, and the right of every man, to live in a safe country.

 

Saturday morning, at 10.30 a.m. Romina Vinci will give also a lecture: "Nuda e cruda: la realtà documentata in viaggio da Haiti allo Sri Lanka" about her photographic projects around the world, from Haiti to Sri Lanka.

"EVIDENCE" at the first edition of PENSARE MIGRANTE, in Rome

EVIDENCE has been selected for the first edition of "PENSARE MIGRANTE" a three days festival made by "Baobab Experience"

 

PENSARE MIGRANTE takes place in Rome from Friday, April 29th until Sunday, May 1st. 

Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi will show their short documentary "Evidence" on Saturday at 4.30 pm.

College Photographer of the Year - Silver prince for "EVIDENCE"

The judging of the Multimedia Division at CPOY  (College Photographer of the Yea )   selected "EVIDENCE" among the winners .

Ella Kiviniemi and Romina Vinci has won Silver in the Small Team Multimedia category for their story "Evidence".

The CPOY judging takes places at the Missouri School of Journalism on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia.

PHOTOTALES at "Fotografia International Festival of Rome"

"Evidence" is one out of only four stories to be selected for the first edition of Phototales - multimedia projects at the XIV edition of the "Fotografia International Festival of Rome".The festival will be held at the Museum of contemporary Art in Rome from the 8th of October to the 17th of January.

The Jury wrote about "Evidence":

The image is a valuable witness of history, damning evidence of reality. So the work of Romina Vinci and Ella Kiviniemi is aptly called Evidence. Here photography expands itself: we are not only observing the portraits of the protagonist – an Eritrean migrant spending his days in a Danish asylum center – but we also look beyond his eyes, into his memory and unconsciousness, thanks to the videos shot by him during his hard journey across the desert and sea. (...)