Honourable mention at MIFA

[cml_media_alt id='1637']Photo: a child is playing on a swing hanged on the remains of an immigrants' boat. - © Marco Ristuccia[/cml_media_alt]

Photo: a child is playing on a swing hanged on the remains of an immigrants’ boat. – © Marco Ristuccia

I’m very proud to have received an honourable mention at Moscow International Foto Awards with this photograph called High Hopes of Immigration.

You can read more about this photograph by clicking here and here.

 

High hopes of immigration

[cml_media_alt id='1637']A child on a swing hanging from the remains of an immigrants' boat. - © Marco Ristuccia[/cml_media_alt]

(Photo: a child on a swing hanging from the remains of an immigrants’ boat. – © Marco Ristuccia)

This photo that I have taken in Sicily grotesquely represents the consequences of immigration we are living nowadays.

Place: Beach of Noto, near Siracusa (Sicily – Italy).
Year: 2014

A happy child is playing on a swing hung by unaware bathers on the remains of an immigrants’ boat. The vessel ran aground and then was slowly swallowed by the wet sand of the shore, to the point of leaving only the top metal structure exposed, making it unrecognizable to beach goers (see the original ship here below).

[cml_media_alt id='1622']The immigrants' stranded ship[/cml_media_alt]

(Photo: the immigrants’ stranded ship – © YouReporter)