World Press Photo 2016, il mondo in uno scatto al Museo di Roma in Trastevere – Frammenti di vita quotidiana impressi nella pellicola grazie agli abili fotografi che raccontano storie di povertà, inquinamento; nuvole di smog che si alzano tra i grattaceli di Pechino; crateri enormi che deturpano con orribili esplosioni abitazioni e veicoli. Questo solo un assaggio della splendida mostra visitabile sino al 29 maggio negli spazi del Museo di Roma in Trastevere: World Press Photo 2016.
World Press Photo 2016 in mostra al Museo di Roma in Trastevere, un’esposizione fotografica promossa da Roma Capitale – Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, in collaborazione con 10b photography e la World Press Photo Foundation di Amsterdam. Organizzazione e servizi museali sono di Zètema Progetto Cultura.
World Press Photo 2016. Non solo una mostra fotografica
Non solo una mostra fotografica, ma la celebrazione di un lavoro giornalistico volto a fissare nel tempo e nella mente frammenti di vita quotidiana tra dolore, gioia, guerra, speranza. Ogni anno, da 59 anni, una giuria indipendente, formata da esperti internazionali, è chiamata ad esprimersi su migliaia di domande di partecipazione inviate alla Fondazione di Amsterdam da foto-giornalisti provenienti da tutto il mondo.
Foto per 128 nazionalità e 21 paesi
Syrians fleeing the war rush through broken down border fences to enter Turkish territory illegally, near the Turkish border crossing at Akcakale in Sanliurfa province on June 14, 2015. Turkey said it was taking measures to limit the flow of Syrian refugees onto its territory after an influx of thousands more over the last days due to fighting between Kurds and jihadists. Under an “open-door” policy, Turkey has taken in 1.8 million Syrian refugees since the conflict in Syria erupted in 2011. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC / AFP / BULENT KILIC 
NZARA, SOUTH SUDAN: Michael Oryem, 29, is a recently defected Lord’s Resistance Army fighter who’s former L.R.A group is involved in the poaching of Ivory in Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Garamba is a former base of operations for the LRA and a major source of financing for the notorious group. Oryem is seen with 2 of 6 ivory tusks that he hid and then led the Ugandan forces to inside the border region of the Central African Republic. He claims that the LRA killed many elephants in Garamba National Park in the DRC and that he was ordered by Joseph Kony, the LRA’s notorious leader, to bring the ivory to him in Darfur, South Sudan. Ivory is now a real means of financing for the LRA, it is used for both food and weapons supplies and is traded to the Sudanese Army who transports it north to Khartoum. Oryem was abducted by the group when he was 9 and lived with them for over 17 years in the wild. He was made a commander in the group at the age of 12. The LRA is infamous for the killing and abduction of thousands of civilians across multiple countries. He defected and is now a recent new member of the Ugandan Army, UPDF, African Union force hunting the LRA. 
AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 – A wounded Syrian girl looks on at a make shift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, following shelling and air raids by Syrian government forces on August 22, 2015. At least 20 civilians and wounded or trapped 200 in Douma, a monitoring group said, just six days after regime air strikes killed more than 100 people and sparked international condemnation of one of the bloodiest government attacks in Syria’s war. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY 
— AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2015 — A man reacts as he looks at the body of his daughter, who was killed following reported air raids by Syrian government forces on August 24, 2015, at a make shift hospital in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. AFP PHOTO / ABD DOUMANY ==GRAPHIC CONTENT== 
Migrants crossing the border from Serbia into Hungary.
Per questa edizione le immagini sottoposte alla giuria del concorso World Press Photo sono state 82,951 immagini, inviate da 5.775 fotografi di 128 nazionalità. Otto categorie in cui la giuria ha premiato 42 fotografi provenienti da 21 paesi: Australia, Austria, Brasile, Canada, Cina, Francia, Germania, Iran, Italia, Giappone, Messico, Portogallo, Russia, Slovenia, Sud Africa, Spagna, Svezia, Svizzera, Siria, Turchia e Stati Uniti.
Foto dell’anno è quella, scelta nella categoria Spot News, del fotografo australiano Warren Richardson, realizzata a Roske, in Ungheria, al confine con la Serbia, il 28 agosto del 2015. L’immagine, che si intitola Hope for new life, mostra un uomo che fa passare un bimbo attraverso il filo spinato ed è stata scelta per illustrare la situazione drammatica dei migranti che nel 2015 si è imposta sull’attualità.
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After spending two days and two nights sailing on the Mediterranean Sea on the deck of the M.S.F. (Médecins Sans Frontières – Doctors Without Borders) search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos, rescued migrants – still wrapped in their emergency blankets – catch sight of the Italian coast for the first time soon after dawn. 23 August 2015 In 2015 the ever-increasing number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on unseaworthy vessels towards Europe led to an unprecedented crisis. Nearly 120 thousand people have reached Italy in the first 8 months of the year. While the European governments struggled to deal with the influx, the death toll in the Mediterranean reached record numbers. Early in May the international medical relief organization Médecins Sans Frontières (M.S.F.) joined in the search and rescue operations led in the Mediterranean Sea and launched three ships at different stages: the Phoenix (run by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station), the Bourbon Argos and Dignity. 
An overcrowded rubber dinghy sailed from the Libyan coast is apprached by the M.S.F. (Médecins Sans Frontières – Doctors Without Borders) search and rescue ship Bourbon Argos in the Mediterranean Sea, in international waters. The migrants on board the dinghy in distress have issued an emergency call and are waiting to be rescued. On the horizon, an offshore oil platform just off the Libyan coast. 26 August 2015. In 2015 the ever-increasing number of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on unseaworthy vessels towards Europe led to an unprecedented crisis. Nearly 120 thousand people have reached Italy in the first 8 months of the year. While the European governments struggled to deal with the influx, the death toll in the Mediterranean reached record numbers. Early in May the international medical relief organization Médecins Sans Frontières (M.S.F.) joined in the search and rescue operations led in the Mediterranean Sea and launched three ships at different stages: the Phoenix (run by the Migrant Offshore Aid Station), the Bourbon Argos and Dignity. 
A stage curtain slowly rises as a group of North Korean singers prepare to perform at the Mansudae Art Theater in Pyongyang to entertain the visiting New York Philharmonic orchestra which is beginning a two day visit to North Korea Monday, Feb. 25, 2008. 
In this Friday Sept. 20, 2013 photo, a North Korean construction worker carries bricks at a building project to construct a ski resort at North Korea’s Masik Pass. North Korean authorities have been encouraging a broader interest in sports and recreation in the country, calling it “the hot wind of sports blowing through Korea.” 
At dusk, the skyline of central Pyongyang, North Korea.
Richardson, fotografo freelance, ha spiegato così il suo scatto: “Ero accampato con i rifugiati da cinque giorni sul confine. Un gruppo di circa 200 persone è arrivato, posizionandosi sotto gli alberi lungo la linea di recinzione. Prima sono passate le donne e i bambini, poi i padri e gli uomini anziani. Devo essere stato con questo gruppo per circa cinque ore, giocando al gatto e il topo con la polizia per tutta la notte. Non ho utilizzato il flash perché altrimenti la polizia avrebbe potuto vedere quelle persone. Ho scattato la foto grazie alla luce del chiaro di luna”.
Francis Kohn, presidente della giuria, e caporedattore di fotografia dell’agenzia di Afp ha così commentato l’immagine vincitrice: “Quando all’inizio abbiamo guardato questa foto abbiamo subito capito che era un’immagine importante. Il suo potere stava nella sua semplicità, in particolare nel simbolismo del filo spinato. Rappresentava quasi tutto quello che si può esprimere visivamente rispetto a ciò che sta accadendo con i rifugiati. Penso che sia una foto classica, ma senza tempo”.
World Press Photo 2016: la mostra
Fara, 2 years old AZRAQ Fara, 2, loves soccer. Her dad tries to make balls for her by crumpling up anything he can find, but they don’t last long. Every night, he says goodnight to Fara and her big sister Tisam, 9, in the hope that tomorrow will bring them a proper ball to play with. All other dreams seem to be beyond his reach, but he is not giving up on this one. 
on December 10, 2015 in UNSPECIFIED, China. 
Tibetans Gather For Prayers At Remote Institute 
Tibetans Gather For Prayers At Remote Institute 
“My mother said that it was a typically quiet day, warm and windy. She and my father opened the window and they felt completely safe on the day of the explosion, the 26th of April 1986.”
Le foto si susseguono una dopo l’altra catturando gli occhi del visitatore. Uno scatto abile e tempestivo coglie l’attimo in cui si genera la valanga; il terrore coglie l’osservatore in un terribile presagio di morte. Le vittime si scorgono per mezzo dei colori del loro equipaggiamento tra il soffice bianco della neve là dove impera il fervore dei soccorritori; il sangue si mescola alla neve tingendo il suo candore.
Terremoti, dolore e speranza di sopravvivere; vani tentativi di recuperare gli effetti personali; poi solo fiamme che si ergono spietate dalle pire funerarie per celebrare le vittime del terremoto.
I canti scandiscono l’operosità delle monache; lo sventolio delle bandiere annuncia la discesa di Buddha dal cielo; la luce del tramonto incornicia una nomade che si appresta a preparare il tea.
Scatti struggenti che raccontano di stragi del mare, di profughi intenti nel compiere viaggi di speranza in quello che è considerato il più grande esodo del continente a partire dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Le persone in fila attendono di essere registrate nella speranza di riuscire a proseguire il loro viaggio regalando ai propri figli un futuro migliore. Nell’attesa della registrazione, i più piccoli si guardano intorno con occhi smarriti dietro sbarre e filo spinato.
Immagini emozionanti di World Press Photo
Laurel Borowick, Howie’s wife, smiles at him as they spend their last moment together before the casket is closed and the funeral begins. Mt. Kisco, New York. December 2013. 
3. Hasaka, Syria – August 1, 2015 A doctor rubs ointment on the burns of Jacob, 16, in front of a poster of Abdullah Ocalan, center, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, at a YPG hospital compound on the outskirts of Hasaka. According to YPG fighters at the scene, Jacob is an ISIS fighter from Deir al-Zour and the only survivior from an ambush made by YPG fighters over a truck alleged to carry ISIS fighters on the outskirts of Hasaka. Six ISIS fighters died in the attack, 5 of them completely disfigured by the explosion. 
Arzuma Tindano (28) leads an eight-member crew of miners at Djuga, an artisanal mine in north-eastern Burkina Faso. They all trust him. They believe in his strength and his judgment. His ‘office’ is a 20 meters deep, narrow, dangerous and claustrophobic pit. The air there is thick, hot and humid with constant dust atacking his longs. He is just about to go into his pit again to do his night shift after he finishes his cigarete. Working in the night is better, he says, because the air is a bit cooler. 
PRESEVO, SERBIA – OCTOBER 7, 2015: A child refugee is covered with raincoat while she waits in line to get registered in Presevo refugee registration camp. Most of the refugees who crossed Serbia try to continue their route towards Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and other countries of the European Union. 
Melissa A. Ramon spent nine years in the US Air Force where she endured military sexual trauma at the hands of her training instructor and fellow airmen. “You see stripes and think it’s power and authority. I went along with it because it was my career if I’d have stopped. I had the rules and he didn’t. Whatever way he looked at it, it was his word against mine,” she said. Melissa suffers from Military Sexual Trauma and PTSD and has been homeless off and on since her discharge. She has sought help from the VA and several Veteran NGO’s. “They keep denying us, denying the claims and make us jump through hoops and even lose our paperwork. It’s like they are trying to kill us with what they put us through, “she said. Women’s shelters will not admit a young man over the age of twelve, so she and her 13-year-old son Sam, bounce from one drug-ridden motel to another outside Los Angeles in Pomona, Ca. Melissa cries in the relaxation room at the “4th Annual Heroes in the Shadows, San Gabriel Valley Veterans Stand Down” in Pomona, Ca. The purpose of a stand-down is to offer a safe retreat for homeless veterans.
Ancora frammenti, immagini che testimoniano il rigore della Corea del Nord chiusa al mondo esterno ormai da 60 anni nell’isolamento e nella disciplina di bambini e giovani.
Un volto riflesso sul vetro di una finestra illuminato dalla luce dorata dell’alba: è il viso di una bambina cieca che, curiosa della vita, esplora ciò che la circonda toccando, ascoltando ed annusando le cose, percependo la luce del giorno tramite il calore del sole.
La vita esplode in manifestazioni di solidarietà per le vittime degli attentati di Parigi; una reazione forte ad una guerra alla cultura.
Ancora dolore, quello che cattura il cuore contorcendolo nel tormento, nell’impotenza: come in una pellicola cinematografica si susseguono i fotogrammi che ritraggono le vittime di violenze sessuali spesso abbandonate al loro dolore. Vuoti assenze e lacrime in scorci di normalità. Problemi dell’animo impressi nella memoria, nel corpo di chi ha vissuto eventi spiacevoli che annebbiano la vista; corpi solcati dal sangue, da cicatrici profonde che deturpano a vita il corpo e la mente e che portano a chiedersi perché l’uomo sia talvolta così ingenuo e crudele.
Ilenia Maria Melis
World Press Photo 2016
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Piazza S.Egidio 1B
5 – A man carried his child as Hungarian police officers fired tear gas, pepper spray and water cannons at migrants trying to cross into the country from Horgos, Serbia. 
February 2015 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Papo Reto collective members taking pictures and recording videos of the Special Police Forces (BOPE) tank-car patrolling in the streets of Vila Aliança, a favela near Complexo do Alemao. After a militar police cop kill a mototaxi driver in the streets of the favela, several cars and high caliber armed cops invaded the streets in alert of a possible confrontation with the gangs and from the population. 
A man who suffered head trauma is bundled in a sleeping bag used as a makeshift stretcher as he was being taken by rescuers to a medical tent moments after a wall of rock, snow and debris slammed on Everest base camp on April 25, 2015 killing at least 22 people. The avalanche was triggered by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people in the country. Rescue helicopters managed to reach the site about 18 hours after the avalanche as bad weather, aftershocks and fears of further avalanches rattled survivors. At the time of the disaster, the 5,364-meter-high Base Camp was teeming with hundreds of climbers and supporting teams who use the base to prepare their ascent to the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth. 
Rescuers use a makeshift stretcher to carry an injured person moments after a wall of rock, snow and debris slammed Everest base camp on April 25, 2015 killing at least 22 people. The avalanche was triggered by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people in the country. Rescue helicopters managed to reach the site about 18 hours after the avalanche as bad weather, aftershocks and fears of further avalanches rattled survivors. At the time of the disaster, the 5,364-meter-high Base Camp was teeming with hundreds of climbers and supporting teams who use the base to prepare their ascent to the peak of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth.
Mi presento, sono Ilenia Maria Melis e vivo a Roma, città dai mille volti, crocevia di culture.
Giornalista & blogger, laureata in Beni Culturali, curiosa per natura, da sempre appassionata di arte, archeologia e viaggi. Nascere in una città come Roma ha sicuramente stimolato il mio amore per l’antichità, per il bello; ogni angolo di questa città è un piccolo gioiello da scoprire, così come ogni borgo della nostra bella Italia.
Il viaggio diviene per me momento di scoperta, conoscenza, sorpresa; emozioni che desidero ogni giorno regalare a chi mi legge piantando il seme della curiosità tra le righe ed il desiderio di conoscere sempre cose nuove, che si tratti di arte o di cibo. E chissà che prima o poi questo semino non germogli e spinga sempre più persone a visitare nuove città, musei, a leggere libri e scoprire quel che di bello si nasconde dietro l’angolo.
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