L'odore della guerra

Fabio Bucciarelli

2012-02-21

L'Odore della Guerra, libro di Fabio Bucciarelli e Stefano Citati, edito Aliberti, uscirà il 1 Marzo nelle librerie. Qui un estratto delle fotografie presenti nel libro.

L'Odore della Guerra, a Fabio Bucciarelli and Stefano Citati book, edited by Aliberti, will be out next March 1st. Here an edit of the images in the book.

L'Odore della Guerra, libro di Fabio Bucciarelli e Stefano Citati, edito Aliberti, uscir&agrave; il 1 Marzo nelle librerie. Qui un estratto delle fotografie presenti nel libro.<br /> <br /> L'Odore della Guerra, a Fabio Bucciarelli and Stefano Citati book, edited by Aliberti, will be out next March 1st. Here an edit of the images in the book.

The true Spirit of the Olympic Games

Francesca Oggiano / Invision

2012-02-21

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.
Seven Olympic villages, monuments of the most important events of the last 50 years of European history. Berlin (1936), Rome (1960), Barcelona (1992), Sarajevo (1984), Helsinki (1952), Munich (1972) and Athens (2004). The project was born in 2009 after a photo reportage about Greek Olympic village, built – up in 2004 in Trakomacedones a remote north west Athenian suburb, four years after Greece entered the euro zone. Athens, the city where the...

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES.<br /> Seven Olympic villages, monuments of the most important events of the last 50 years of European history. Berlin (1936), Rome (1960), Barcelona (1992), Sarajevo (1984), Helsinki (1952), Munich (1972) and Athens (2004). The project was born in 2009 after a photo reportage about Greek Olympic village, built &ndash; up in 2004 in Trakomacedones a remote north west Athenian suburb, four years after Greece entered the euro zone. Athens, the city where the Olympic Games were born about two century ago, lost the new millennium Games edition of 1996 but won the 2004. In order to fulfil the challenge and to prove its greatness to European countries massive sportive centres were built, most of them unused after the end of the Olympics. The 350 billion euros Olympic village that constructed in order to host approximately 17 thousands athletes was transformed in a dormitory town, set about 20 km from the city centre in 2005. Five years later the village is falling apart. The flats where the Olympic athletes lived, today provide accommodation for working &ndash; class families and naturalized Greek immigrants. Greek Government in harness with OEK ( Houses Organisation for workers) assigned the Village flats to families who had rights to claim a low loan home from the organisation. However, the whole housing estate results completely out of touch with capital and surrounding suburb sand still remains a foreign body, in which to live it is not easy. There are less busses, no underground nor tram line. Houses, built up in rush, need often maintenance and repairs, Everything else that are taken for granted by most of the citizens like banks, public offices, malls, super markets can be found 4 km away from the Village. Residents still wait for a big church to be built. From here on, it was born the curiosity to see what has happened in the other countries who hosted the Olympic Games. The project starts with the German Olympic village, built up close Berlin in 1936. Before that year in fact Olympic athletes were hosted in hotels or campuses. It was only in 1932, for the Los Angeles Game edition, that IOC (International Olympic committee) introduced the Olympic village among the compulsory requirements to host the Games for the nominated countries. Unfortunately nothing remained of Los Angeles Olympic Village so the first existing Olympic village is that of Berlin, even if it's only ruins that remained. only ruins. The Berlin Games are best remembered for Adolf Hitler&rsquo;s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As it turned out, the most popular hero of the Games was the African-American sprinter and long jumper Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals in relay and long jump. The true spirit of the Olympic Games project sets itself up to two objectives. On the one hand, the state of maintenance of the Olympic Villages and the level of social integration of the families who live in these areas. On the other hand, documenting the modern and current European history from these strange corners, built up in the middle of nowhere or at the outskirts of big cities. So it has been in 1960 for the Rome Games. Here the Olympic village was built during the Dolce Vita years. The Rome Olympic Village was born between two historical districts: Flaminio and Parioli, and it was built up on a place where, until 1958, there were only tents and shacks of Second world war displaced people. The work was revolutionary as Italy was in full boom at time and Rome hosted the Games. A few years after serving its purpose the village is transformed into a residential district but during his 50 years of life the area has been left in a state of neglect and lost its characteristic splendour. The village during the 70's is known for student actions and bad patch and during the 80's its squares and streets were used by prostitutes and heroin addicts. At the end of 90's the Olympic village is reborned. In 2005 the municipality of Rome has decided to construct close to the village the Auditorium of Renzo Piano. The decision has been taken in order to retrain the whole area, instead of that Auditorium has caused a big raise at the flat prices. In 1992 Barcelona hosts the Games. It is the first post cold war Games. The Berlin wall fell down in 1989 and Spain hosts the Olympic Games for the first time. The city, disposed to change face, used the funding to transform its identity. Towers, new avenues, a jewel sportive centre in the middle of Montjuic and 7 kilometres of beach, that until 1992 didn&rsquo;t exist. Popular architects starts a competition to reshape the Catalan city injured by Franco and Barcelona&rsquo;s skyline change forever. 18 architects design the Olympic village. 11 residential blocks, for the first time not assigned to working class families, but sold on property market one month before the opening ceremony Games. In 2010 Barcelona Olympic village has no more borders. Around the district there are schools, buildings, hotels, malls, restaurants, offices, bars. A very efficient underground, buses and tram lines or bicycle paths. Every kind of service makes the new district, built up close to the beach, one of the best area to live in Barcelona. But 1992 is as well the year during that the most violent and bloody ethnic clearance war go off in Yugoslavia. While Barcelona is celebrating its stylistic rebirth hosting the XXVth Olympics, Sarajevo is under siege. The Olympic village built in Mojmilo in 1984 to host the winter Olympic Games experience ethnic clearance war and horror. All the buildings are demolished under the advance of heavy and light artillery. In 1996, one year after the end of the war, Barcelona funds the rebuilding works of Sarajevo Olympic village. In this very long stretch of European history could not be omitted Munich that hosted the Olympics in 1972. The Munich Games will be forever associated with the ghastly acts of terror carried out by the terrorist group &ldquo;Black September&rdquo;. On the 5th of September, eight Palestinian terrorists broke into the Olympic Village killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine hostages. In the ensuing battle, all nine Israeli hostages, five of the terrorists and one policeman were killed . In defiance of the terrorists, the IOC ordered the competitions to resume after a pause of 34 hours. At the end of this memory route of the Games there are Helsinki Olympic village. An important Games edition developed in 1952 during the Cold War. Israel and the Soviet Union join the Olympic Games for the first time. Part of Finland is still occupied by Russian army and for this edition of the Games the authorities decide to built up two different Olympic villages: one in Otaniemi for Soviet Union and Eastern Europe teams and one in Kapyla for western countries teams. The true Spirit of the Olympic Games project wishes to imprint the recent and modern European history through the Olympic villages as each one is connected into a specific social- economic and cultural contest. The project is intended to describe Europe from these common and at the same time different perspective. Through the houses and squares, born out of nowhere and transformed, except Berlin, into garden suburbs for worse off or working class families. For this reason the project is composed of two different point of views: portraits in the houses and wide shot photos of the Olympic village places.<br />

Lucha Libre at la Loba

Tomasz Gudzowaty / Focus

2012-02-21

Sports

3rd prize

stories

WORLD PRESS PHOTO 2012

Lucha libre, the Mexican version of free wrestling, is probably only rivaled by soccer in popularity among Mexican people, and its cultural impact may be even greater.

Sports<br /> <br /> 3rd prize<br /> <br /> stories<br /> <br /> WORLD&nbsp;PRESS&nbsp;PHOTO 2012<br /> <br /> Lucha libre, the Mexican version of free wrestling, is probably only rivaled by soccer in popularity among Mexican people, and its cultural impact may be even greater.

Teen bloggers

Ed Thompson

2012-02-21

London Fashion Week 2012. Teen Bloggers

London Fashion Week 2012. Teen Bloggers

Athens, February 2012

Gerasimos Koilakos / Invision

2012-02-21

Gerasimos Koilakos is still documenting every day the situation in Athens covering the demonstration and what happens in the streets of Athens. Images uploaded every day.

Gerasimos Koilakos is still documenting every day the situation in Athens covering the demonstration and what happens in the streets of Athens. Images uploaded every day.

Mario Monti, italian premier

Piotr Malecki and Lorenzo Castore

2012-01-25

Mario Monti, European commissioner for Competition from 1999 until 2004, became Italian Prime Minister and was asked to form a new government on 16 November 2011 following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.

Mario Monti, European commissioner for Competition from 1999 until 2004, became Italian Prime Minister and was asked to form a new government on 16 November 2011 following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi.

Siberian Models

Marco Pighin

2012-01-25

SIBERIAN MODELS: THE BEAUTY COMING FROM THE COLD.
Russian women are some of the most beautiful in the world and the most beautiful of those live in Siberia. Hundreds, are the girls that come from Siberia to work in the fashion capitals. Many european and american agencies, come here to scout for new talent to model on the catwalks of Paris, Milan and New York. Most of these young girls come from a poor background and they aim to gain an economic independence. They move from the remote...

SIBERIAN MODELS: THE BEAUTY COMING FROM THE COLD.<br /> Russian women are some of the most beautiful in the world and the most beautiful of those live in Siberia. Hundreds, are the girls that come from Siberia to work in the fashion capitals. Many european and american agencies, come here to scout for new talent to model on the catwalks of Paris, Milan and New York. Most of these young girls come from a poor background and they aim to gain an economic independence. They move from the remote villages in Taiga to the edge of the big city like Krasnoyarsk o Novosibirsk, they hang out at casting and local agencies, hoping to be choosen from many foreign talent scout that properly arrive here. Siberia is a huge land, as much bleak and unfriendly as generous, a land where the fancy elegance of women seems in contrast with the cold' s monochrome of landscape. This reportage is a journey through the lives of these young women and their hopes. Through what we don't know about their life and that is more important than some fashion magazine's slick pages or fashion show.