ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Portrait of a young Rohingya refugee. Rohingya are a Muslim minority from north Rakhine, a small region in Myanmar. The military government denied them the citizenship, reducing their status as a stateless group. They were denied the right to own land and property, exposed them to forced labour and routine violence, as rape and killings.
For survive, Rohingya crossed the border with Bangladesh: since 2017, more than one million and half people arrived in Cox's Bazar area and surviving in huge refugee camps.
This is not an event from the past. It's happening.

AUTHOR
Erberto Zani is an Italian photographer and journalist freelance, based between Parma (Italy) and Basel (Switzerland). Since 1998 until 2004 he worked as photographer in advertisement sector. After some years as journalist for a local newspaper, becomes independent since 2008. Most of his works are focused on human rights issues.

Books published:
Vado, vedo, racconto (ed. Il mio libro, 2022), Urban Visions (ed. Blurb, 2021), Elemental Fashion (ed. Blurb, 2019), Exodus (ed. Blurb, 2018), Kied Pologo (ed. Stamperia, 2017), Aftermath (ed. Stamperia, 2016), Black World (ed. Stamperia, 2015), Maha Kumbh Mela (ed. Stamperia, 2014), Tsiry (ed. Stamperia, 2014), Babanagar-Colombia (ed. Stamperia, 2013), Sahel (ed. Stamperia, 2012), Hope (ed. Stamperia, 2011), Haiti, fragments (ed. Stamperia, 2010), Drops of Life (ed. Stamperia, 2010), Da Borgo San Donnino al Passo della Cisa (ed. Publiprint, 2006).

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