25 Photos That Tell A Story About Tragic Events And Different Cultures Captured By Antonio Cascio

"LOVE IS LOVE. The United Nations in 2004, proclaimed May 17 as the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biophobia, in commemoration of the day on which homosexuality was eliminated from the international classification of mental illnesses by the General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO)."

"On the road postals. Tatacoa desert, Huila, Colombia."

"One year ago I was documenting and assisting at the inauguration of Lula as new president of Brazil. I have never seen so many people, around 200,000, showing their happiness and celebrating all together at the same place for the same reason. That impressed me, even though I totally understood their reason. After four years of repression and violence by the far-right government of Jair Bolsonaro, that day different groups of civil society felt the possibility of a real change in policy and the hope of the end to racism, sexism, and homophobic persecution."

"La Guajira 'School Bus'. Desert life. The more difficult life becomes, the more ingenious people are."

"Photo session with Txai Suruí. A 24-year-old indigenous woman known internationally for her fight against climate change. Photos were taken at the government palace in Brasilia on the occasion of the inauguration of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Marina Silva, January 4, 2023"

"On the road postals. Tatacoa desert, Huila, Colombia."

"Portrait of one of the persons who bravely fought for 7 days, night and day, against the fire in the mountains of Bogotá."

"3rd day of wildfire in the mountains of Bogotá. Just happening a new one in el Cerro de la Antena. 24 January 2024."

"Noreli Uriana visits her son’s grave, a small concrete block. Wayúu people do not put the names of newborns on graves; the black and white grave with no inscription to the far right is also that of a baby."

"On the road postals. Tatacoa desert, Huila, Colombia."

"Miguel Antonio Yepas (57), a Wiwa traditional authority from the Conchamake village, took refuge, with 33 more families from his community, in the Coliseum of Riohacha. They are the second wave of Wiwa displaced due to an armed conflict between two illegal groups trying to take control of their territory. A total of 500 indigenous Wiwas run away from their village. Miguel Antonio left behind animals and a three-hectare plantation. Agriculture is a food and money source for his family. "I lost more than 10 million pesos (£2 thousand approximately) on cassava production alone, and more money on the rest. I would like to go back, but I'm afraid of my life", said Miguel Antonio with a sad voice. He had already suffered forced displacement in 2002 due to a paramilitary incursion in his community that left 16 victims. At that time he spent three years hidden in the mountains before coming back to his village. Now they have spent almost 3 months in the two government structures, feeling like they are living in a cage, without knowing if ever they will come back home."

"Colombia is very close to banning bullfighting. The Congress' last decision that should have been taken today has been delayed until tomorrow. During the meeting, a group of animalists performed in front of the Congress in Bogotá waiting for the Government's decision that did not happened."

"On the last day of the Barranquilla Carnival, Joseilito, the heart and soul of the Carnival, passes away. During the parade, the Queen of the Carnival and citizens, organized into various groups, are representing Joselito's widows for his funeral procession. They carry his coffin, grieving as they mourn his loss throughout the parade."

"Sicilia On Fire! Forestry Corps helicopter in action to extinguish the fire in Monte Sparagio. August 5, 2022."

"Yemanjá celebration in Salvador de Bahia, in Rio Vermelho. Last pictures from Bahía, saying goodbye to this amazing land."

"On May 22, 2018, the ZAD (Zone a Defender) in Notre Dame des Landes, France, was suffering the sixth day of a violent attack, in a war scene, where thousands of riot police, with helicopters, drones, bulldozers, and tanks faced a hundred of eco-activists. That day, a dramatic event marked the end of the eviction attempt, a 21-year-old activist lost his hand due to the explosion of a stun grenade and was arrested for participating in the resistance action. The ZAD history: In 2008, when the French government announced the project to build an airport in Notre Dame des Landes, an area made up mainly of fields, farms, and forests, in a total of 1,600 hectares, a group of activists started an occupation of the territory, to stop the airport project and create a self-managed community in its place. A life based on self-construction, land cultivation, and livestock farming that has been repeatedly interrupted by police forces, which have tried unsuccessfully to evict the occupants. Until the beginning of 2018, when the French government definitively abandoned the airport project. It was at this moment that the State negotiations began to put an end to the self-managed and occupied project, proposing the regularization of the occupied spaces in exchange for their inhabitants submitting to the laws of the French State and presenting agricultural projects. The deadline: is April 2018. The proposal creates division among the 'zadistas', which makes resistance difficult, and the first eviction operation, despite a week of strong confrontations, could not be stopped. A third of the buildings were destroyed. After these conflicts, the State gives one more month of time for new projects to be presented. In mid-May 2018 the clashes began again, which continued for six days with an army of more than a thousand riot police for one side and a hundred activists on the other, reinforced by supporters from all over Europe, who know the ZAD from their own experience or from having heard about it, and who were arriving every day to join the front of the resistance."

"Carmen de Luquez, Wayuu leader, with her face painted in the Wayuu tradition, stands inside the dry jaguey of her village Calabasito."

"In December 2000 the United Nations decided that the 18th will be the International Migrants Day, to remember their rights and to look every year for solutions. Now, in 2023, most of the western countries are trying to close their borders, criminalizing migrants and watching the other side without any good solution."

"After the rescue operation has ended and most of the humanitarian organizations left, the earthquake areas on the Atlas Mountains of Morocco are left alone. The villages most affected are now looking like ghost areas. Survivors are sleeping in tents close to their villages and waiting for government help, which nobody knows when it will happen. The rows of graves appear on the side of the roads. What remains is the solidarity of the Moroccan people that independently bring any kind of help to the people affected. The cold and rainy season is coming and it will be hard for survivors to live without their home."

"Beach and Crowd, August 2024. Guidaloca bay, Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily."

"Sicily Wildfires."

"A fire forces the evacuation of a few houses in Calatafimi. The flames started from the woods near the Sicilian village and then burned some abandoned houses and damaged others. 18 August 2022."

"May 1st in Bogotá. Massive march where different society groups took to the streets in favor of the Government of Gustavo Petro. During his speech in the square, the Colombian President announced the end of the diplomatic relationship with Israel. Colombia is now the second country in Latin America to make this decision."

"Sicily on Fire, August 2024. Every day Sicilian fields are burning around the island. Heat, drought and strong wind make an explosive cocktail for wildfires and for arsonists to expand danger and destruction behind it. Firefighters and forest guards spend their summer time down 40º temperature and the strong sun confronting at the same time the flames and the smog that burn their skin and their eyes. Buseto area, Trapani, 12/08/2024."

"Mama Luz Dary Aranda, Governor of the indigenous council of Guambía, pictured at a meeting on education in the Misak schools, May 2022. Through the hospitality, availability, and support provided by the community representatives, we have been able to tell a few of the thousands of stories that make up this remarkable community. The wisdom, strength, and determination of the Misak women and men have shaped one of Colombia's most organized indigenous groups."

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