LANDLESS

«Landless» is a project that stems from the need to remember and bear witness. Davide Vignati selected few pictures of his extensive archive, with thousands of shots taken during his 15-year-long career as a humanitarian worker in conflict areas. His pictures show people fleeing poverty, violence and war, with no land to return to or to live on. This is a visual journey with a landless humanity: migrants, displaced, refugees and peoples living under occupation, as well as armed groups, fighters, guerrillas or revolutionaries who picked up arms to fight for a homeland long longed-for but denied. The photos track large part of modern humanitarian crisis. From Palestine and Kurdistan to Syria, on to Iraq, Libya, Congo, Guinea, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Vignati captures snapshots of peoples defeated by history, of persecuted minorities, of men and women stripped of everything, including of their own identity. Before being a photographer, Vignati is a humanitarian worker. His are snapshots taken in the context of humanitarian crises while performing his work, often with the aim of building a connection with victims and fighters alike, so this selection walks a fine line between private archive and public show.