Il Mare In Mezzo (The Sea in Between)
Photographer: Antonio Denti
Exhibit Title: Il Mare In Mezzo (The Sea in Between)
Location: Italy
'Il Mare in Mezzo'' juxtaposes pictures of the moving efforts of migrant survivors to make peace with the sea after their journey (in Italy) and pictures taken in the Central Mediterranean during numerous stints on migrant rescue ships in action. In the migratory route that I had the chance to repeatedly witness - from Africa to Europe - the sea plays a central part. Before the brave journey, the sea is what stands between home and destination, present and dream. After the journey, the sea still stands between exile and homecoming, achievement and return. The sea separates and connects, but it must be engaged if one wants to leave home to better one's life or if one wants to go back home. And engaging the sea takes a lot of courage. ''Il Mare in Mezzo'' hopes to highlight a fragment of the brave, often unsung story of modern migration. Migration is the Odyssey of out times, but it is an epic with no cantor. Yet it should be held a shared monument to the courage of humans to change their fate.
'Il Mare in Mezzo'' juxtaposes pictures I took witnessing the moving efforts of migrant survivors to make peace with the sea after their journey (in Italy) and pictures I took in the Central Mediterranean during numerous stints on migrant rescue ships in action. In the migratory route that I had the chance to repeatedly witness - from Africa to Europe - the sea plays a central part. Before the brave journey, the sea is what stands between home and destination, present and dream. After the journey, the sea still stands between exile and homecoming, achievement and return. The sea to migrants is both a liquid desert with a promise of death and danger and an infinite bridge blue bridge that connects home and away, away and home. The sea separates and connects, but it must be engaged if one wants to leave home to better one's life or if one wants to go back home. And engaging the sea takes a lot of courage. The migrant mothers and their Italian born children pictured here trying to overcome the trauma of their deadly crossing by reconnecting with the sea near Rome are brave and their courage is a first step towards homecoming. Towards the right to return. ''Il Mare in Mezzo'' hopes to highlight a fragment of the brave, often unsung story of modern migration. Migration is the Odyssey of out times, but it isan Odyssey with no poem, an epic with no cantor. But it should be considered world's heritage, a monument to the courage of humans to change their fate.
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