Author archives: alfredodamato

Interview for Huffingtonpost on Greek austerity
 
  • Interview for Huffingtonpost on Greek austerity

  • A Photographer's Journey To Capture Greece's Spirit During The Crisis "I personally admire the Greek people for their strong resilience and capacity to keep pushing despite any difficulties." ATHENS, Greece - On April 23, 2010, Greece's then-Prime Minister George Papandreou addressed the worl[...]
Interview for Der Spiegel
 
  • Interview for Der Spiegel

  • Last year photographer Alfredo D'Amato accompanied two lifeboat-operations of 'Mare Nostrum' off the coast of Italy. In this article he is talking about his time on the lifeboat and the fate of the refugees - and he is explaining why the salvage operations necessarily should be resumed. How pictu[...]
Stranded in Paradise
 
  • Stranded in Paradise

  •   From the early 16th century onwards, Portuguese settlers who had come to the new colony of Sao Tome and Principe started importing slave labour from the African mainland to work on the sugar plantations (or rocas) that were spreading across the lush islands straddling the equator off t[...]
Tèlèrama: Making-of d'une photo de une saisissante
 
Sao Tome and Principe
 
  • Sao Tome and Principe

  •   Straddling the equator in the gulf of Guinea lies the island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, the second smallest African nation and the smallest among Portuguese speaking countries. Previously uninhabited, it was discovered around 1470 by Portuguese navigators who immediately saw the [...]
  • Télérama

  •  "Le cri" da "Télérama" : making-of d'une photo de une saisissante Un bateau isolé, une mer calme et la mort qui rôde… La photo Alfredo D'Amato, photographe italien, illustre la une de notre magazine cette semaine, consacrée au drame des migrants. Mais comment l'a-t-il prise ? Explicatio[...]
'L'Esodo' - Fotoleggendo
 
  • 'L'Esodo' - Fotoleggendo

  • Nell’ambito di Fotoleggendo L’Esodo nasce dalla volontà della commissione scientifica del festival di creare un momento di riflessione sulla tragedia degli sbarchi e dell’immigrazione in Europa, un’emergenza che coinvolge tutta la comunità Europea di fronte a popolazioni in fuga da guerre e mise[...]
Mare Nostrum exhibition at X3 Gallery
 
  • Mare Nostrum exhibition at X3 Gallery

  • Nome latino per il Mar Mediterraneo – storico crocevia di commerci, culture e contaminazioni -, Mare Nostrum è la missione umanitaria di salvataggio dei migranti in mare attuata nel 2013 – conclusa, poi, nel novembre 2014 e sostituita dall’operazione Triton di Frontex – dalla Marina Militare itali[...]
Syrian refugees, Athens. Greece
 
  • Syrian refugees, Athens. Greece

  •   'Life in exile has been harrowing for each of them. After fleeing Syria with the rest of their family in the summer of 2012, they turned to smugglers and made six perilous attempts to enter Greece, repeatedly risking their lives at sea and being turned back to Turkey. Fewaz and Malak fin[...]