My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | 5 photos

I travel throw Eastern Europe to meet a people who are unfortunately often reject, but part of Europe's history and its future.

“Roma Memories 1930-1950” exposes pictures of gypsies who tell about they’re persecution in the Europe of the Second World War. I wanted to approach they’re story in intimacy, evanescence of they’re memories, hurting for the individual but essential to humanity and History.

At 10 years old, I visited the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, it was spring and the sun was glittering and the nearby camps where surrounded by flowers. The contradiction was astonishing, life and death, present and past lived together in this sinister place.

In my photographical “demarche” I search the way of capturing the instant of this contradiction, where life and death, passed and present find themselves together again. Trying to understand contradictions of the past, can help us understand the ones of our present. Surrounded by they’re families, in this instant of testimony, witnesses are also part in the transmission over younger generations.

It was a great privilege for me to accompany these men and women in these intimate and painful moments. I hope, thanks to my work, to give them homage in the most simple and intense way as possible, like simple and intense has been our meeting.