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Etiopia - 1998
The Humanity Lost
This reportage represents the synthesis of my four-year african experiences from 1998 to 2001 with a direct contact with the populations, still today, not influenced from the west "civilization", their way of living. Their approach with the different cultures rappresented an important and profound experience that made me understand how our way to be, lost something: in terms in relation with our similes, our humanity, our emotions; in synthesis "The lost humanity".
In these years this has been a very important evolution step.
Etiopia - 1997
On the trail of the Ark
I crossed the North of Ethiopia through the plateau: the lake Tana, the island of Tana Kirkos, the millenary cities of Lalibela, Axum and Gondar.
In the church of St. Mary of Sion in Axum, like described in the Kebra Nagast, ancient ethiopian manuscript of the XIII century, I saw the place where the Alliance Ark, disappeared since the temple of Salomon in the sixth century before Christ, should have been preserved.
The photographic route traces, in a summarized way, the places covered along the way of the saint cities of Africa Copta during the period of the Gemna, places where, still today, the coptic deacons are the only interprets of the ancient language Ge'ez.
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