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Gianni Giosue recommended Paolo Patrizi to us, writing: Paolo Patrizi’s photographs are a reflection of the person behind the camera. They show great attention to detail, balance and composition. Also they show his greatest talent. Quite simply Paolo is a great human being who has enormous respect for his subjects. As a photographer he is quite happy to stay close to home and wander around the city seeing without looking, and reacting to the signals around him rather than being a compulsive viewer.
On a personal level he is humorous, witty and extremely sensitive. He can feel, analyze and understand the forces at work behind a photograph. Also by talking to him you would never guess that he is an accomplished photographer who has won several important awards. He likes talking about other photographers and their art more than about himself. He likes lingering on the beauty of the philosophy behind photography.
Paolo seems to me the perfect mentor, the one who never gives you the answers, but still points you in the right direction. He made me realize that photography is not just about perfect composition, timing or light. Photography is about creating a rapport with your subjects, one which is based on honesty and respect. As a documentary photographer you have to be an activist, not merely somebody who is able to create a graphic representation of reality.
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The phenomenon of foreign women, who line the roadsides of Italy, has become a notorious fact of Italian life. These women work in sub-human conditions; they are sent out without any hope of regularizing their legal status and can be easily transferred into criminal networks.
The majority are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, a town in the state of Edo in the south-central part of Nigeria, have been going to Italy to work in the sex trade and every year successful ones have been recruiting younger girls to follow them.
The Nigerian trafficking industry is fueled by the combination of widespread emigration aspirations and severely limited possibilities for migrating to Europe.
The term Trafficking of persons is restricted to instances where people are deceived, threatened, or coerced into situations of exploitation, including prostitution. This contrasts with Human smuggling, in which a migrant purchases services to circumvent immigration restrictions, but it is not a victim of deception or exploitation.
Most migrant women, including those who end up in the sex industry, have made a clear decision to leave home and take their chances overseas. They are headstrong and ambitious women who migrate in order to escape conflict, persecution, environmental degradation, natural disasters and other situations that affect their habitat and livelihood.
One concern is that the anti-trafficking crusade is causing effects opposite to its objectives. What presents itself as a campaign to protect migrants from harm is actually making their efforts to flee home, to find work, to make the most of their lives in often difficult and unforgiving circumstances, much harder.
Paolo Patrizi was educated in Italy and began his career in London working as an assistant to other professionals. While doing freelance assignments for British magazines and design groups, he started to develop individual projects of his own.
He is a documentary photographer whose recent stories explore the contradictions between traditions and modernity and cultural disconnections produced from rapid economic growth.
Today, his work is featured in leading publications, such as the Observer Magazine, Stern, Panorama, Corriere della Sera, GQ, Courrier Japon, Geo, XL Semanal, Handelsblatt, European Photography and Vanity Fair. He currently resides in Japan, where he focuses on Asian issues.
Paolo Patrizi (1965) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Click weblink paolopatrizi.com or browse our archives
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