Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre 5 marzo-19 aprile 2015
Molto di più di un’esposizione fotografica, il progetto vede una sinergia artistico-umanitaria che fa capo, da un lato, al reportage fotografico di Beatrice (Mancini) giovane archeologa, giornalista e fotografa, supportata da un editor, Andrea (Salva) e da uno scrittore, Marco (Vichi), dall’altra, alla missione pilota che ha condotto Martina (Ferata), giovane dottoressa e Marta (Zanovello), infermiera, assieme a un gruppo di medici dell’Ospedale di Padova in Bangladesh nel 2014 dove operava una piccola Onlus chiamata Filodijuta.
The right lighting and atmosphere of the exhibition, the videos and slides showing an ancient water land and its people, mostly women and children, help the visitor to take a virtual trip to Bangladesh, a country of South Asia in the Ganges delta, but what excites your imagination is the absence of captions: you will never know the names of the princesses and the queens in the pictures. Ten stories, not longer than 12-15 lines, told by Marco Vichi, a fine writer, and matched with the most intense portraits, will carry you away like a song whose meaning you don’t know.
Martina Ferata, a medical doctor who treated many women from the lower classes in the local school facility, gratefully remembers the lady teachers, who granted a little privacy for the patients fixing the windows with their own veil.
Beatrice Mancini, the photographer, says that she felt unprepared when the women, even the very sick ones, were asking for a photo with their eyes as if the image could help them with their health problems, which had been neglected for a very long time.
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