10 Portraits Against Prejudice
#10PortraitsAgainstPrejudice is a photographic-editorial project by Davide Scalenghe, Flora Ciccarelli and Giovanni Mauriello, and all the people who believed and gave us their time, putting themselves in front of a goal, in these hot days of a July in Turin. Thank you. Ten faces and ten stories to tell firsthand what it means to live with the prejudice – that attitude, that process for which we attribute to an unknown person the traits and characteristics typical of their theoretical group of belonging – branded in focus on the skin: too fat, too feminine, too aggressive, too weird. Bodies and minds that escape the canons of a society that would like us all the same way. All equal.
Uganda
The pictures in this gallery were taken during the filming of the documentary: Community Health, Global Knowledge: Experiences from Uganda, which we made for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the wider project Learning For Actions Across Health Systems. The documentary chronicles our journey to Uganda, where we met with community health workers across the country to hear their voices regarding the next steps in community health.
Thailand
As a result of my work experiences and my work on human trafficking and child exploitation, in November 2014 I traveled to Thailand, one of the world’s major hubs of child trafficking for sexual purposes. With the assistance of Save the Children, The United Nations Population Fund and the NGO Compassion Italia, I interviewed and photographed former victims of child trafficking and the various social workers, health-care professionals and volunteers helping them.
The New Faces of Africa
These are the photos featured in my solo exhibition “The New Faces of Africa,” which ran at the Hotel Boscolo in Milan from September to November, 2015.
“PRESS RELEASE: A unique journey that lasted five months, in the heart of Africa; a report on the trail of a proactive, vital and constantly evolving continent, able to look to the future; a photographer with a keen eye that captures the essence of the men, women and children of those lands and highlights their pride and desire to be leaders of a free and independent tomorrow.
Photographer and video reporter that has dedicated his profession to international investigative pieces and reports, Davide Scalenghe exhibits a selection of 20 photographs shot during the trip that has taken him to Morocco, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, alongside Steve McCurry. The occasion was that of the documentary and photographic project that accompanied the shooting of the Lavazza calendar 2015 “The Earth Defenders” by the American photographer, a collaboration between Lavazza and Slow Food, and that Scalenghe turned into a film broadcast by Discover’s Real Time.
The main themes of Expo 2015 are those of the exhibition “The New Faces of Africa”: food and nutrition, basic human need, but also symbol of freedom where rural production is the sector that employs entire villages and that puts African men and women at the center of their own destiny.
Many such communities have grown considerably in recent years and have today achieved full autonomy: farmers are able to sell their product directly, without the intervention of intermediaries, increasing the direct gain for the maintenance of their household.
In partnership with LAVAZZA.”
Ethiopia (2019)
Angola (2019)
In 2019, I was commissioned by SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to travel to Angola and Ethiopia to tell the stories of some of the construction, garment and textile workers I encountered. The commission was part of the wider project Industrial Development, Construction and Employment in Africa (IDCEA), a comparative analysis on employment patterns and outcomes in the infrastructure construction and manufacturing sectors in the two countries. The photos below are a selection of my portfolio from the Angolan leg of the trip.
