WITHOUT BORDERS

From the mountain I see no boundaries, I turn around, I turn around to see if I see them, but I don't see anything! I only see an imposing mountain full of moss, I'm looking for the best shooting point to take a photo. The Balkans have been the scene of wars and controversies, a territory full of borders and fascinating, as are its mountains and its people. A territory full of contradictions, of different religions living together, with a mosque in front of a Greek Orthodox church with children in the same class with different religions and traditions. A reportage that has lasted for about a year independently and economically, renting a car and crossing borders for the love of my work, for the story and for what I have always believed in which is the power of photography. The selection is part of a much larger work. I have documented places and people in Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia where there is the largest Roma community in the world, Bulgaria, Serbia. I didn't want to document only places of misery, photography deals with the places where you live, your family, your religion, your playmates, always trying to give ethics and pride to the person portrayed even if in less advantageous conditions than other. The project still requires a lot of work, study, discussion and listening. I would like to go to Greece, Thessaloniki, and Turkey and then be able to make a book out of it, as if it were a big family album all together holding hands with their differences with the Serbian brother, with the Albanian cousin, with the Bosnian uncle , with the Turkish grandmother, and so on. Thanks for the attention Roberto Strano