THE DREAM | Fabio Bucciarelli

Things they Carried

"Things they carried" shows images of the objects found among the migrants died while crossing the Mediterranean. Through the pictures of their belongings, which have also been almost destroyed by the sea, the reportage wants to remind those who - trying to fulfill the dream of a new life far from poverty, war, hunger and persecution - lost their lives.

Photojournalism 2011-2016

In the last five years, Fabio has dedicated himself to documenting the causes and consequences of this stream of humanity fleeing conflict. His work has taken him from the Italian island of Lampadusa, to Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Serbia, Macedonia and to the small Greek island of Lesbos where refugees continue to arrive from Turkey by the boatload every day.

The book

The book, published by FotoEvidence, is a Limited Edition of 1000 copies - including 100 Special Edition with a signed 20 x 30 cm fine-art print and a 'cover vest' realized with the life jacket used by refugees to arrive to Europe.

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Dreaming Europe

TIME Magazine "[...]Bucciarelli aimed to show a different dimension. He chose to portray his subjects devoid of any conventional attributions that would define them as anything other than men, women and children."

Pinhole Camera

"During the last year I decided to start working with Pinolina, a hand-made pinhole camera. A pinhole camera is a very basic camera which mirrors the refugees condition - they have been reduced to their most basic existence, struggling to survive."