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A selection of photos from the archive of Luca Catalano Gonzaga is available as collector’s prints. The goal of print selling is to contribute to the realization of the photographic projects of Witness Image that narrate the great transformations of our time.

The village of Daguag, Mbeida, Gorgol District, Mauritania. This portrait, has been taken 50 years after Richard Avedon shot the portrait of the enslaved William Casby, entitled “Born in Slavery”. It is about the Haratin of Mauritania, descendant of the Black Moors, the historically enslaved population “owned” by the White Moors, a powerful minority. Although “Haratin” means literally “those who have been freed”. This woman still lives in slavery, generation after generation, treated by everyone else as ‘property’: something only worth buying, selling, trading or destroying. Living in villages in the countryside, she works a land which is not her and doesn’t receive a salary or any form of compensation.

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Ijen Kawah volcano, Indonesia. Alpan, 27 years old, a sulfur miner for ten years now, looks for sulfur slabs under the toxic fumes. Every day, around 300 men leave the base camp carrying traditional equipment like torches and metal poles to break the sulfur slabs, though with little protective gear. Only a few men are given gas masks, while the rest rely on wet scarves or rags to cover their mouths, in a largely futile attempt to protect themselves from the caustic gas that burn the eyes, throats and lungs, and can even dissolve teeth.

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Portrait in the north of Nepal.

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Sasyk Kul lake, Tajikistan.

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Along the road from Langar to Alichur, Tajikistan.

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Kara Kul lake, Tajikistan.

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Taras Shevchenko Theatre, Kiev 2018. Performance of the ballet “The Nutcracker”, a ballet with music by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij (op.71). “The Nutcracker” is one of the most represented subjects in dance schools and has been an inspiration several times for the cinema, the theatre and sport.

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Taras Shevchenko Theatre, Kiev 2018. Exercises on the stage a few moments before the curtain is opened for the representation of “The Nutcracker” ballet.

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Taras Shevchenko Theatre, Kiev 2018. “Swan lake” is one of the most famous and acclaimed 19th century ballets performed by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij.

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Rumbek, South Sudan. Kaya Koreng, 16 years old. at the Eye Clinic, while her sight is being checked. She has been losing her eyesight over the last few months. One of the consequences of the war is that many clinics and first aid centres have been ransacked and destroyed. There is lack of medicines and clinical instruments and this makes it impossible to provide accurate diagnosis and effective therapies.

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Hai Matara village, South Sudan. Durisila Kayiwa, 42 years old and Stephen Tabau, 51 years old, husband and wife, stand in from of the tombs of their three daughters, all victims of Nodding disease. Their only child to survive is their daughter Yucunia, who is also severely affected by the same illness. For their last child to be buried, in February 2017, they were only able to use stones to cover the corpse. As the civil war continues, there is no chance to find any cement for the tomb.

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Hai Matara village, South Sudan. Tereza Kenge, 62 years old in front of her hut. Janet has multiple disabilities, as she is both visually and physically impaired. She cannot move on her own and must use a wheel-chair. She is taken care of daily by her daughter Agnes.

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Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Punya, 14 years old, at dawn, rests and protects herself from the cold.

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Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. At 7 a.m. Yadhuy, 4 years old, has already started preparing the bricks about to be baked.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh. Carrying mud at the Buriganga River.

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Sahel, Burkina Faso. A mother and her child at the entrance to the Bani mosque. About 50% of the population in Burkina Faso is of Muslim faith.

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Nouakchott, Mauritania. A Haratin boy trying to fish, a skill that most boys are taught at an early age.

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Sahel, Burkina Faso. The d’Oursi Sea is a very shallow lake in the Oudalan region in the North of Burkina Faso, on which many communities rely for water supply.

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Gobi desert, Mongolia. Landscape on the road from Baruun Bayan Ulaan to Orog Lake. The drought hits areas adjacent the Gobi desert, causing an increase of the desertification and menacing the survival of people who inhabit these places breeding their animals. Thousands of people move with their families to the outskirts of the capital Ulan Bator.

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Battambang, Cambodia. Nel 1993, dopo la caduta di Pol Pot, il Governo decise di distribuire le terre ai lavoratori per la produzione del riso. In quell’anno si registrava una popolazione di appena 5 milioni di abitanti, infatti durante il regime dei Khmer Rouge erano scomparsi più di 2 milioni di persone. Attualmente si stima una popolazione superiore di 16 milioni di abitanti. Questo incremento demografico ha creato dei seri problemi di sopravvivenza per intere famiglie di contadini, che non riuscendo più a far fronte ai beni di prima necessità decisero di vendere la propria terra a latifondisti stranieri quali Vietnamiti o Tailandesi e diventare loro dipendenti.

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The village of Daguag, Mbeida, Gorgol District, Mauritania. This portrait, has been taken 50 years after Richard Avedon shot the portrait of the enslaved William Casby, entitled “Born in Slavery”. It is about the Haratin of Mauritania, descendant of the Black Moors, the historically enslaved population “owned” by the White Moors, a powerful minority. Although “Haratin” means literally “those who have been freed”. This woman still lives in slavery, generation after generation, treated by everyone else as ‘property’: something only worth buying, selling, trading or destroying. Living in villages in the countryside, she works a land which is not her and doesn’t receive a salary or any form of compensation.

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Taunggy, Myanmari. Every year in November as the full moon approaches, tens of thousands of people from all over the country gather in Taunggyi for the colorful hot-air balloon festival during which balloons lift fireworks or lanterns which illuminate the sky at night.

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Rwanda: “The faces of a thousand hills”. Kicukiro district, Kigali.

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Chirundu, Zambia. Children playing jump rope in a village in the Chirundu district. Increased rainfall, temperatures and humidity levels favour the mosquito population and the ensuing transmission of the disease. Malaria is the main cause of mortality in Zambia, with nearly 4.3 million cases and 50 thousand deaths every year. Malaria is a disease that responds directly to climate change.

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Katmandu, Nepal. Karina, 15 years old, carrying bricks. In Asia, Latin America and Africa, children dig clay for bricks using shovels, picks and awls. After mixing the clay and water to the proper consistency, workers form bricks using small wooden molds. When the bricks are dry, barefoot workers load them on their backs or on top of their heads. Child workers carry large loads of bricks in hazardous conditions, often 12 hours a day. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has estimated that over 40% of Nepal’s children aged 5-14 were working in 2015 – 2.6 million in total. Nepal has an overall young population nd child labour is present in most areas of the national economy.

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Portrait in the north of Nepal.

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Portrait in the north of Nepal.

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Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Gopal, 14 years old, as he loads bricks onto his head, the movement causes the creation of a lot of fine dust, provoking many harmful respiratory diseases. Each brick can weigh up to 4 kg, and a minor can carry, on the shoulders or on the head, about 2,500 bricks a day, for a total of 12 working hours earning just about 750 rupies ($ 7).

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Varanasi, India 2017. Gange river.

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Battambang, Cambodia. Nel 1993, dopo la caduta di Pol Pot, il Governo decise di distribuire le terre ai lavoratori per la produzione del riso. In quell’anno si registrava una popolazione di appena 5 milioni di abitanti, infatti durante il regime dei Khmer Rouge erano scomparsi più di 2 milioni di persone. Attualmente si stima una popolazione superiore di 16 milioni di abitanti. Questo incremento demografico ha creato dei seri problemi di sopravvivenza per intere famiglie di contadini, che non riuscendo più a far fronte ai beni di prima necessità decisero di vendere la propria terra a latifondisti stranieri quali Vietnamiti o Tailandesi e diventare loro dipendenti.

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Sahel, Burkina Faso. A group of women at work. Sahel is the region separating the Sahara desert from the most fertile grounds of the ‘Black Africa’, a long semi-desert strip stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea. Climate change continues to significantly affect this area, causing a decrease in agriculture, a change in the flowing of rivers and watercourses and their continuous silting up, the intensification of desertification, and the massive movement of populations as climate refugees.

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Dhaka, Bangladesh. Mother and son at the Manda slum. Around the capital city of Dhaka, huge shanty towns made of iron sheets and plastic have sprung without any electricity, gas or water, let alone a sewage system, surrounded by piles of garbage where undisturbed dogs, goats and cows scavenge for food. The slum dwellers either barely subsist or endure long daily travels to reach the “real” city in search for work. Their children have become almost invisible because they are unaccounted for: unregistered at birth, kept out of school, they contribute to the family income by doing random and often hazardous work, living in the streets where they are further exposed to violence and abuse from adults.

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Inle lake, Myanmar.

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Witness Image is a non profit organization founded by Luca Catalano Gonzaga, which combines photography and journalism.

Its’ purpose is to narrate the great transformations of our time through a number of projects.

Witness Image aims to document the world disorder of our day through images and their stories such as: the causes and consequences of the war, child abuse, hunger, poverty, injustices, natural and environmental disasters.

Witness Image wants to build a reflection on the right of people to remain themselves in this era of great political and socio-cultural changes.

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