Davide Lemmi

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Contentious, bipolar and peevish. I’m pretty similar to Beirut, or maybe I just want to be. I was born in Tuscany in 1989. High school, university, underpaid collaborations with local papers and a one-way ticket to Lebanon. I work like a freelance and live like a freelance. I decide what to write and what to photograph, without upsetting my wallet too much.

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Bargny, a city fighting for its life against industrialisation and climate change

In a municipality on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, threatened by climate change and unchecked industrialisation, activists are fighting to not disappear.

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Carmen Medaglia’s battle against waste and injustice in Italy’s Land of Fires

In Italy’s Land of Fires between Naples and Caserta, activists like Carmen Medaglia are fighting to promote new ways of managing waste.

From Bangladeshi brothels, the voices of the prostitutes trapped in the prison of sexual slavery

Bangladeshi brothels like those in Faridpur are prisons with invisible doors in which women are forced into a vicious cycle of slavery and social exclusion. Whose chains are hard to break.

From Bosnia to Trieste, migrants’ journey across the new Balkan route

Travelling across the new route used by migrants to cross the Balkans and reach Trieste in Italy, a reportage that documents the social, economic and political changes of the countries along the way.

Nicosia, Cyprus. The last wall dividing Europe

In Europe there’s still a capital divided by a wall. An exclusive reportage from Nicosia, in Cyprus, which is split by a “green line”.

Bangladesh, in the Kutupalong refugee camp among Rohingya women and their stories of abuse

Rohingya women who have escaped from Myanmar are forced to live in brutal conditions and are victims of unspeakable violence. Someone who visited the refugee camps in Bangladesh told us about what they saw there.