• BETWEENLANDS

    The Mediterranean Sea has changed. In the last months it has been shaken by an immense and liberating roar, leaving everybody astonished. Betweenlands is a blog that tells, through the power of images and video – subtitled by handful of words- the political changes, and their social repercussions, taking place along the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea, shattered by popular riots and spontaneous – though often violent- protests. As if its populations – that we wrongly considered numb – were suddenly infected by a collective hysteria pushing people in the streets; while somebody else is thrown in the sea.

    Among migrants in Tunisia and in the chaos of Tahrir Square, in Egypt, there is a new generation that took to the streets. They are more educated, secular and individualistic than the past.

    Betweenlands is part of a project born from the trip that three independent professionals have made in the months of February and March 2011 in these countries, chasing the fall of the Arab regimes. Here they met with the amazing actors of Arab riots and asked them to express on camera their reasons for dissent.

    It is the Arab Spring that for many remembers the 1989, the sudden collapse of the wall that separated the two parts of Europe. Suddenly, an order that is believed changeless had instead changed. A similar phenomenon was registered in 1968 too: Paris, Chicago, Prague, Rome, Berlin.

    However, a revolt is not enough to make the revolution. That is why their journey continues.

    After these riots, they have also decided to recount the emergency landing in Lampedusa.

  • Aftermath of war in Misurata.
  • Personal migrants' belongings found in Lampedusa.
  • Cairo, Egypt.
  • Tunisian refugees in Lampedusa waiting to be transferred in an immigration center.
  • The Gaddafi's swimming pool in the Baba Alzazya compound in Tripoli.
  • Alessandria, Egypt.
  • Gaddafi's tanks sequestered by Misurata's fighters.
  • Aftermath of war in Misurata.
  • Tahrir Square during the riots.
  • Refugee camp of UN in Tunisia, close to libic borders.
  • Martyrs' Square in Tripoli which during Gaddafi government was called Green Square.
  • Cairo, Egypt.
  • Gaddafi's compound in Bengasi.
  • Refugee camp of UN in Tunisia, close to libic borders.
  • Inside of a house where there was one of the most cruent attack of Misurata's fighters against Gaddafi's army.
  • Cairo, Egypt.
  • Tawargha, a city in the libic desert once lived by Subsahrian people, today attacked by Misurata's brigades in order not to make them come back in their houses.
  • Suburbs of Tripoli.
  • Arms in Bab Alzazya, dump destroyed by NATO's bombs in Tripoli.
  • Ouagadougou conference hall in Sirte, once Gaddafi's center for international summit.
  • Inside view of the house in Sirte where Gaddafi hid himself before being killed.
  • Inside view of the house in Sirte where Gaddafi hid himself before being killed.
  • Ouagadougou conference hall in Sirte, once Gaddafi's center for international summit.
  • Riots in Tahrir Square.
  • Ouagadougou conference hall in Sirte, once Gaddafi's center for international summit.
  • NDP's officies in Cairo.