DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, Lubumbashi

The project behind these photos is to give a series of portraits of people I met in Africa during their daily-life. These photos have been taken in the savannah outside Lubumbashi, with the support of Amka, an Onlus established in Rome in 2001. The population of this region lives in small isolated villages without any elementary need. The conditions of these small groups of shacks are rather like a Middle Age european village. People who live there don’t have electricity and often neither water. The villages are scattered deep in the savannah and it takes hours off road to reach them. I have created three series: Mothers, because in Africa they are the centre of life with a moving pride; Daily life, to give an idea of the hard condition of existence in this part of the world; and School time, dedicated to the children, during school time . Milano, January 2013