Emanuele Camerini

Photographer

The Island

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Location: Pisa

Nationality: Italian

Biography: Emanuele Camerini (b. 1987) is a freelance photographer. His own personal and intimate narrative lies in between the conceptual and documentary approach. After a BA in Photography in Rome, in 2014 he attends the Advanced Visual Storytelling class... MORE

Amin (38 years old) - He is in...t closed and has moved abroad.

Amin (38 years old) - He is in Italy for seven years. Before living in Rome, he worked between Ancona and Pescara in a shoes factory of high fashion, which with the advent of the economic crisis it closed and has moved abroad.

Asam (50 years old) - Come fro... wife and 8 year old daughter.

Asam (50 years old) - Come from Dhaka he is in Italy for three years. In Bangladesh has a wife and 8 year old daughter.

Babul (45 years old) - Babul a...hare the room where they live.

Babul (45 years old) - Babul arrived in Italy nine years ago. The twenty year old son reached him a few months ago and now share the room where they live.

Mazid Mirza-Abdul (58 years ol...lties of a big city like Rome.

Mazid Mirza-Abdul (58 years old) - He is in Italy for four months. He would like to return as soon as possible in Bangladesh because he fails to overcome the many difficulties of a big city like Rome.

Rafael Sikdar (22 years old) -...s at another gasoline station.

Rafael Sikdar (22 years old) - He is arrived in Italy thanks to a cousin who works at another gasoline station.

Rashid (39 years old) e Moazem...p, helping and making friends.

Rashid (39 years old) e Moazem (35 years old) - Rashid is in Italy for six years and knows well the Italian language; Moazem, however, has arrived in Rome only for two months, doesn't speak the language and is not be able to communicate with anyone. They both work at the same gas pump, helping and making friends.

Fazlu Miah (36 years old) - Na...ughter who left in Bangladesh.

Fazlu Miah (36 years old) - Native of a small village north of Dhaka, Fazlu is in Italy for some years. In Bangladesh he worked as a farmer in a rice paddy and he arrived in Rome looking for a job more rewarding. He hopes in the future to be able to come to Italy his wife and daughter who left in Bangladesh.

Iobal Zafar (45 years old) - I... who lives and works in Dubai.

Iobal Zafar (45 years old) - Iobal paid six thousand euros to be able to arrive in Italy via North Africa. He asked to borrow the money for the trip to his cousin who lives and works in Dubai.

Nazrul (46 years old) - Arrive...oon as possible to Bangladesh.

Nazrul (46 years old) - Arrived in Rome for some years, Nazrul can't live with the earned money from tips of drivers. He has difficulties to integrate himself and would like to return as soon as possible to Bangladesh.

Titu (30 years old) - Despite ... with four other Bengali guys.

Titu (30 years old) - Despite living in Rome for several years Titu fails to learn Italian well and this leads to difficulties of communication. He shares an apartment near the gasoline station where he works with four other Bengali guys.

Mahabur Rahman (45 years old) ...tly through texting and skype.

Mahabur Rahman (45 years old) - Mahabur is in Italy for six months and he earns about 5â‚¬ per day, which spends almost totally to cover the costs of sleeping and eating. He left in Bangladesh his wife and his two daughters, who keep in touch constantly through texting and skype.

MD. Gofur Miam (24 years old) ...s who were working in Tunisia.

MD. Gofur Miam (24 years old) - He arrived in Italy from North Africa through together with Bangladeshis friends who were working in Tunisia.

Khondoker Jamal (27 years old)...he works at the gasoline pump.

Khondoker Jamal (27 years old) - Jamal arrived in Italy for about five months and lives with an 85 years old elderly man. He is in charge of him and the house during the day, while at night he works at the gasoline pump.

Saptar Abdul (44 years old) - ...stay for humanitarian reasons.

Saptar Abdul (44 years old) - Abul is native to Bangladesh and worked several years as a bricklayer in Libya. With the advent of the Arab Spring he decided to leave the country and land in Italy. After being in Lampedusa several weeks has been granted him permission to stay for humanitarian reasons.

Nail (36 years old) - Nail com...ends who already work in Rome.

Nail (36 years old) - Nail comes from the Indian sub-continent, where he worked several years in a factory in Delhi. Because of the difficult working conditions, he decided to move to Italy looking for a job and with the hope to find some of his friends who already work in Rome.

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Thumbnail of Nazrul (46 years old) - Arrived_soon as possible to Bangladesh.

Thumbnail of Titu (30 years old) - Despite l_s with four other Bengali guys.

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Thumbnail of MD. Gofur Miam (24 years old) -_ds who were working in Tunisia.

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Private Story

The Island

Updated Jan 2014

Location Rome, Italy

Topics Documentary, Immigration, Isolation, Photography, photojournalism, Portraiture

‘The Island’ born from an urge to explore the faces, stories, lives of many Bengali guys who spend their nights at the gasoline stations offering their help to drivers in exchange for a tip. Sat down, lighted only by neon lights, their faces emerge from the darkness that surrounds them almost like castaways on a remote Island waiting for a ship that can rescue them. Men arrived in Italy with the hope to leave behind the poverty and the problems of their country, but forced to face the difficulties of one of the biggest city in the world: Rome. This project, realized between 2012 and 2013, tells about this reality that flows along roadsides.