"Operazione Mare Nostrum" 7 Giugno 2014 by Massimo Sestini
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Stamped and autographed photo.
In 2014, aboard the Frigate Bergamini, Sestini witnessed the Mare Nostrum rescue operations, off the coast of Libya.
After twelve days of storm, he managed to film a drifting boat with a load of 500 migrants from a helicopter, who were then rescued.
The photograph won the prestigious World Press Photo in 2015, in the General News section.
In 2020, the New York Times included this same shot along with 115 others as the most representative of the last decade, selected from 500,000 images. The Sunday Times did the same, including the photograph among the most representative of the
decade.
From this Award was born the project Where Are You: over the next five years, Sestini tracked down and photographed (from above and perpendicularly exactly like the photo of the boat) about ten of the migrants who were on that boat, portraying them in their new life, in various European countries.
A documentary was made on this work with National Geographic broadcast all over the world.
Technical specifications:
- Year 2014;
- Dimensions 42x59.4cm.
This lot has been donated by Massimo Sestini.
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Stamped and autographed photo.
In 2014, aboard the Frigate Bergamini, Sestini witnessed the Mare Nostrum rescue operations, off the coast of Libya.
After twelve days of storm, he managed to film a drifting boat with a load of 500 migrants from a helicopter, who were then rescued.
The photograph won the prestigious World Press Photo in 2015, in the General News section.
In 2020, the New York Times included this same shot along with 115 others as the most representative of the last decade, selected from 500,000 images. The Sunday Times did the same, including the photograph among the most representative of the
decade.
From this Award was born the project Where Are You: over the next five years, Sestini tracked down and photographed (from above and perpendicularly exactly like the photo of the boat) about ten of the migrants who were on that boat, portraying them in their new life, in various European countries.
A documentary was made on this work with National Geographic broadcast all over the world.
Technical specifications:
- Year 2014;
- Dimensions 42x59.4cm.
This lot has been donated by Massimo Sestini.
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