Apnea
In October 2022, Chad experienced one of its worst floods ever. 1 million people affected, hundreds of homes destroyed and extensive damage to farmland and livelihoods. The floods, caused by heavy rains, affected 18 of the country's 23 provinces and waters engulfed more than 465,000 hectares of fields. The affected people became "climate" displaced, finding themselves left with nothing and catapulted into IDP camps scattered throughout the various districts of the capital. Without a home, without their belongings, almost 200,000 people are living a new life inside tents made of sheets, without assistance or food, further aggravating the already critical situation of food insecurity in the country. Chad is the emblem of what is now Climate Change, with its desertification, floods, hotter winters and increasingly dramatic rainy seasons. Chad is that border line between what was and what will be, no more emigrants but displaced people, no more water but deserts, no more deserts but floods
Fausto Podavini
Fausto Podavini was born in Rome, where he currently lives and works. He began his photographic journey first as an assistant and studio photographer, to approach gradually to photo-reportage. Podavini has also been part of MIFAV Tor Vergata University, where got to know and been in contact with many photographers. After abandoning studio photography to devote himself exclusively to reportage, he then embarked himself as a freelance, working with various non-profit organization for the realization of reports in Italy, Peru, Kenya and Ethiopia, where he currently is pursuing some personal photo projects. In 2009 he began a collaboration with the Collective WSP, joined permanently in 2010, where, in addition to work as a photographer in collective projects, he works as a professor of Photojournalism. In addition to his various reports in Africa, South America and India, Podavini has carried out important work on the Italian territory such as a report on sport for disabled, a report in a juvenile prison and a work on Alzheimer's disease, with whom he won the Daily Life section of the World Press Photo 2013. His works have won international awards such as The World Press Photo in 2013 and 2018, Il Poy in 2016 and 2018, Sony, Yves Rocher Grant and have been published in the most important international magazines such as 6Mois, LeVie / LeMonde, GEO ES, Stern, Internzainale, Donna Moderna, National Geographic, Days Japan and has exhibited in major cities such as New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Rome.
