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BIFA 2023

A Silent Scream

  • Photographer
    Gabriele Rossi

The data point to a steady expansion of the methamphetamine market in the EU.Over the past decade the number of meth seizures has more than doubled, while the quantities seized have increased by 477%.Czech Republic has the largest meth problem in the EU and is also the largest supplier.Demonization pushes towards risky practices and the prohibitionist vision often does not consider drug addicts as persons but cages them in a role and considers them as ghosts that wander among us.The drug addicts need help and not our pity, so that their scream does not remain a silent scream.

I am a freelance photojournalist, my work spans social justice, human rights, conflict and contemporary issues. I prefer jobs that require depth and therefore time. In recent years I have dealt with violence, disease and drug addiction. I like to try to analyze the sociological reasons of the topics I deal with. Photography, in addition to being a tool for denunciation, is an excuse to test myself and nourish within me the desire to experience the world first hand but before all this, however, there is the awareness that this job represents a responsibility.