Far from our attention, year after year the climate crisis is hitting hard in Africa, changing its prospects, worsening hunger and uncertainty, and altering the psychology and perception of the world of its inhabitants. The present is fragile, the future is frightening: this is the story told by the photos of Africa Blues.
Photo copyright: © Giulia Piermartiri and Edoardo Delille for WeWorld
For over 50 years WeWorld has been working to grant the rights of women and children in 26 countries around the world, including Italy. The projects bring anyone on the geographical and social margins to the center of the conversation, promoting their human and economic development, so that they can become protagonists of their own change.
Giulia Piermartiri is an Italian photographer who mainly concentrates on documentary photography and her work is published in various national and international publications. Her main focus is on human dynamics in relation to politics and nature.
Among her early work, she made a series of photographic projects in the United States, along the Mexican border.
Before the 2016 US presidential election, he portrayed Latinos for Trump, ‘Los Trumpistas’, first- and second-generation immigrants who had managed to achieve the ‘American dream’. However, their notable feature was that they had become conservative, to the point of developing an anti-immigrant stance.
Moreover, moving from San Diego, California, to Brownsville, Texas, he created ‘Hillary-ous’, a collection of still lifes depicting pro-Trump political gadgets found in petrol stations.
Finally, he reached the Arizona desert on the border with Noogales, Mexico. Here he documented, in ‘Far South’, two sides of the same coin: first by following groups of paramilitaries chasing Mexicans away from the border, and then groups of volunteers bringing water to Mexicans stranded in the middle, thus perfectly representing the divide between Americans.
Now his work focuses on climate change issues and how communities will react to the metamorphosis of their land. Since 2019 he has been working on ‘Atlas of the New World’, a long-term project on several continents that investigates how the map of the world will be altered by climate change and in turn how populations will have to react to these changes in the places they live
Edoardo Delille is an Italian photographer and videographer working in the field of portrait and documentary photography. He chose photography after discovering that law school was not for him, so he then studied photography at the Fondazione Marangoni.
His first assignments were in fashion and advertising. Later on, he started storytelling through his portraits and worked on videos and short movies. Over the years, he has developed a personal approach to the use of light. His work has often revolved around the theme of borders and his stories are connected to the concept of physical and human boundaries. Since 2019, together with Giulia Piermartiri, he has been working on a long-term project on climate change around the world.
He also works with corporate assignments aimed at offering a peculiar visual approach. Among some of his clients there are Enel, the Milan Chamber of Commerce, Treccani, the Camargue region, Consorzio Chianti, Zenato, Ornellaia, Donati Holding, and Google.
His work has been published in several media outlets such as Sunday Times Magazine, Newsweek, National Geographic Video, Die Zeit, The Guardian, Stern Magazine, Internazionale, Wired, Le Monde, Geo France, Marie Claire, D La Repubblica, Io Donna Magazine, and exhibited in galleries and Festival worldwide. He is a member of the photographers collective Riverboom.