This photographic work tells about a not well known aspect of the current period (and in the post-apartheid) in South Africa, where even the white people are victims of several incidents of discrimination, in particular following the government program "Black Economic Empowerment" (BEE), established to redress "racial" inequalities generated by the previous regime. These photographs describe a community (shelter) that welcomes people and entire families of "Afrikaaners", so called white South Africans, who have lost everything, from work to home, after several unfortunate events that highlight the absence of a form of assistance to those in difficulty or no longer able to hold a job, especially if the skin color, this time, is clear. The centers are of great help to many of the people housed, providing not only food, shelter and medical care (and some sporadic work) but also providing a kind of education service for the children of some of them, staying in the community and which would have many difficulties to get to school.
Enrico Doria was born in Palermo in 1978.
He received his PhD in Genetics and Biomolecular Sciences at the University of Pavia.
Passionate about photography since childhood when he started to shoot with the father’s Canon AT1, his photographic journey began in 2003; in love with a Holga camera, given to him one day in October, he began to implement some projects in medium-format film that subsequently allowed him, over the years, to exhibit in various Italian and foreign cities, including Turin, Milano, Pavia, Arles, Barcelona, Berlin.
In 2012 he was selected to present a project in the circuit OFF of the Photographic Festival in Savignano (SI Fest OFF 2012):
In 2014 he obtained the Honorable Mention in MIFA (Moscow International Foto Award) winners section.
Finalist in Photolux Leica Awards in 2014.
Some of his reportage and photographic works have been published in magazines such as Witness Journal, "Positive + Magazine," "Potpourri", EV Magazine, SenzaRespiro Magazine, Shots, F-Stop Magazine, Il Fotografo, About Photography, Cliché magazine and La Stampa online.
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