Witness Image is a non profit organization founded by Luca Catalano Gonzaga, which combines photography and journalism.
Its’ purpose is to narrate the great transformations of our time through a number of projects.
Witness Image aims to document the world disorder of our day through images and their stories such as: the causes and consequences of the war, child abuse, hunger, poverty, injustices, natural and environmental disasters.
Witness Image wants to build a reflection on the right of people to remain themselves in this era of great political and socio-cultural changes.
Most Haratin, including the elderly, still farm a land that is not theirs and who by law must give away to their masters a part of their meagre harvest. The younger flee to the city, where they find work on construction sites or at the sh market of Nouakchott.Mauritania 2013
Mother and son at the Manda slum, in Dhaka.Around the capital city of Dhaka, huge shanty towns made of iron sheets and plastic have sprung without any electricity, gas or water, let alone a sewage system, surrounded by piles of garbage where undisturbed dogs, goats and cows scavenge for food.Bangladesh 2010
They are called “Dalits” and 160 million across India. They are members of the lowest caste of the Hindu social and religious system, thrown from the local traditions to the most infamous places in the country to perform the most degrading and odious works. India 2017
Haratin of Mauritania, descendant of the Black Moors, the historically enslaved population “owned” by the White Moors, a powerful minority. Living in villages in the countryside, She works a land which is not her and don’t receive a salary or any form of compensation. Mauritania 2013
LPAN, 27 years old, a sulfur miner for ten years now, looks for sulfur slabs under the toxic fumes. Indonesia 2014
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