ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A migrant rests inside an abandoned warehouse where he and other migrants took refuge in Belgrade, Serbia on February 5, 2017. According to UNHCR at the beginning of 2017 about 7,000 people are stuck in Serbia. They are migrants mostly coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan, whose 60% are unaccompanied minors. Several hundreds migrants who currently leave in Serbia have found refuge in abandoned warehouses behind Belgrade's train station. They sleep on the floor and protect themselves from the cold Serbian winter temperatures lighting fires with railway tracks wooden beams, plastic and waste of any kind, making toxic and unbreathable the air. The great part of them prefers continuing living in the old railways station warehouses, rather than moving to official camps for the fear of being expelled by the government.

AUTHOR
Born and currently based in Naples, Italy. Thanks to a scholarship I studied one year in Paris at the “Université Paris VII – Denis Diderot“. In 2007 I started working as a contributor and a photographer for several Italian newspapers. In 2009 I graduated in Sociology at the “Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II” with a dissertation in journalism, in which I analysed the different slant between newspapers Le Monde and Corriere della Sera. In 2010 I started studying on the MA Photojournalism programme at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli where I got my degree with honours.
Some of my work have been exhibited in the PAN-Palazzo Arti Napoli (Italy), Castel dell’ Ovo (Naples, Italy), Biennal of Bibbiena (Italy), Palm Spring Photo Festival (California), Tel Aviv Photo Fair (Israel).
I regularly publishing in the National and International magazines, including Corriere della Sera, Famiglia Cristiana, Il Venerdì di Repubblica, Internazionale, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, New York Daily News.
My researches have been set in Italy, Romania, Tunisia, Egypt, Poland, Ukraine, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and France telling stories related to current issues.

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