Meeting the World

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Romania | Tuesday, January 1, 2013 | 5 photos

Since my early childhood I was surrounded by my Italian aunt's paintings and the ruins of the Roman Empire in Carthage, the town near Tunis where I used to live before my departure to Italy. I believe that these two features, my two nationalities and my eidetic memory pushed me towards a continuous need for discovery and the pleasure of the eye. One day, my father put a camera in my hand and so it became the companion of my travels.
Foreign languages and cultures are the two main subjects that characterized my studies from elementary school to university. I feel the necessity to grab as much as possible from a culture trying to understand and learn its positive and negative sides and sometimes adapting to it.
Last April I took part as a photographer in a European project in the Romanian Moldova that ended in a successful exhibition in Turin and a participation in the upcoming Padua Photography Festival. I realized that I shall do something to turn my passions into the leitmotif of my life and study to become a visual anthropologist.
I speak arabic and know about arabic culture and history through my university studies and experiences. Therefore, I am ready for the travel in Oman.