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Rifugio

‘Milluzzi’s essays and Dorigo’s photographs complement each other seamlessly, grouped into six chapters, describing what they say is the burdensome and often heart-rending plight that these minorities endure. Dorigo’s subtle but eloquent photographs – often blurry, elusive, at time dramatic – capture both joyful moments and oppressions encountered, illustrating a reality suspended between the cultural heritage that these communities embody and their minority nature.’

Paul Moakley, TIME

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Author: Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi

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The birthplace of Christianity lies on the Iranian slopes from Mount Ararat to Mount Lebanon. Since those ancient times, the rugged valleys and gorges have served as a refuge for monastic communities and those in search of solitude. Nowadays, 12 million Christians are assumed to live in the Middle East, but only a few of them remain to live in the region because of radical Islam and persecutions; millions have relocated to North America, Europe and Australia.

Linda Dorigo and Andrea Milluzzi travelled through Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Turkey and Syria. They were driven towards the small Christian communities that choose to not be part of the diaspora.
While the Middle East was being turned upside-down by revolutions and by a fractured war inside Islam, Christians became a religious minority, disillusioned witnesses closed in their self-defence. The recent developments in the Middle East, including the horrific cruelties perpetrated predominantly against Christians by Islamic State, makes Rifugio an essential document for all those interested in world politics.

Linda Dorigo is an independent photojournalist and documentary photographer currently based in Italy and the Middle East. Andrea Milluzzi is a freelance journalist, having previously worked at the Italian newspaper Liberazione. From their bases in Beirut and Rome, they have combined forces to provide an insider’s account of what is happening in the Middle East region today.

 

Reviews & Features
Ydoc
Video opening of Rifugio at Villa Manin (Italian)
TIME
Huffington Post Italia (Italian)
L’Oeil de la Photographie (English, French, Mandarin)
The Guardian in print and online
Firecracker featured photographer January 2015
Featureshoot
Public Radio of Armenia
Left (Italian)

 

Design: LevievanderMeer
ISBN: 9789053308431
19 x 24.5 cm
Hardbound with dust jacket
180 pages with 73 images in duotone

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Weight 0.784 kg

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