Project Detail: I'M ALBINO

Contest:

LuganoPhotoDays 2017



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Romina Remigio

 

Project Info

I'M ALBINO

... Shuffled, broken, mutilated, murdered, and dusted just for a lucky door. Albini men and women, children and children began to be seized and massacred.

I ALBINO is a reportage on life, on albino conditions, but starting from another point of view that is life. I want to start from life and not from death.

Life in Africa runs parallel to death, but Africa is the land of life. Then I thought of identifying myself in the life of a pregnant woman during the period of the outbreak of albino violence, an albino woman or black skin that had had albinos in her family, so she could have given birth to a son with albinism. Africa is first and foremost Woman and Mother, I had to leave from there. I followed for months pregnant women, families and albino with skin cancer, who underwent chemotherapy.

I ALBINO tells the courage and the desire to live and go ahead with the albinos, with their smiles, hope and confidence that their country awakens from this ugly dream and remember that they are all Tanzanian brothers.

"I'm Tanzanian. I'm an African. Look at my nose, look at my lips, maybe I look like a European? I am a tanzanian white skin and yellow hair, but my blood is of the same color as my Tanzanian brothers >>. Thomas, the striker of the albino national soccer team, keeps me on pointing out who he is and tells me about his soccer team where training is never all. There is always someone missing because he was beaten or attacked. Despite the dread of going home, the albinos want to continue living on their free ground to play football, laugh, work, and family.

In the north of Kabanga, on the border with Burundi, the Kabanga Protectorate Center was created for the reception, training and support of albinos.

In 2015, the country's first alien lawyer was appointed vice-minister: Abdallah Possi. And now there are so many teachers, doctors, nurses and albino students who no longer want to be afraid and respond with a smile hoping for a serene future at home.

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