Andrei is a 10 year-old boy and just a while ago he was living the cheerful life that every child deserves to live. With the occurrence of the economic crisis his father got fired and his mum moved to Italy to find a job. Over the months, the absence of his mother as well as his father’s alcohol abuse had become a tough burden to bear. The presence of his relatives and the strong affection to his motherland cannot fill the emptiness inside him.
After a long and painful lawsuit between his parents, Andrei finally catches up with his mother in Italy but what seems to be a happy ending is actually the beginning of a new life where everything looks different and where expectations turn into delusions. Andrei deeply misses his old habits and finds it difficult to integrate into the new society. This generates a strong discomfort that gets even worse because of the arduous relationship between the boy and his mother’s new partner. Andrei shuts himself out, avoids people and isolates himself into a mental and physical cage. He hardly ever leaves the flat that, although it does not feel like home, it is the only refuge he has.
His body is in Italy but his spirit is still there in Romany, since Andrei has arrived somewhere but not here…
Q&A with Fabio Moscatelli
Photography is…
Photography is a powerful communication, my purpose is to try to give emotion through hidden stories but so near to our daily life.
Photography and writing…
I think that writing is important in a reportage, so I can introduce the viewer on the journey. it’s like taking a tour guide before leaving for a trip. The beauty of the journey you will see on the site, and it just so happens to photos after reading.
Who left the biggest impression on you?
Every single person who allows me to use his time and then to tell their own story. The photograph has given me so many friends, as well as wonderful stories.
Tell us a little about yourself
I like to tell through photography, I’m currently working on my most ambitious and difficult project, tell my father, who died almost twenty years ago.
I’m sure the love for photography will help me this time too.
Fabio Moscatelli (www.fabiomoscatelli.it) Born in Rome, he lives in his hometown. He started taking photographs at age 25. He obtained his first certificate in Reportage at Graffiti in Rome.
In 2012 he won the second prize of the scholarship named Rolando Fava, and in the same year, the Roman School of Photography assigns a scholarship for a Master of Reportage.
In 2013, the Leica Award finalist and winner of the competition in the category Portraits National Geographic.
