Migrant Tomatoes
Once a year Italian families make tomato sauce at home, cooking and canning a huge amount of vegetables. Tons of tomatoes are grown in the fields of the South of the Country and harvested by about 19,000 labourers, paid 1 or 2 euro for each filled box. Only in 2015 there were 13 deaths at work in the fields because of high temperatures. Many of those involved in the harvest are immigrants. On the tomatoes, still dirty with soil, bought by my family to make the sauce, I saw the fingerprints of those who had harvested them, I imagined their stories, the hours spent in the sun, the hope, the desire to work. Since then, I haven’t watched the sauce with the same eyes.
2nd Prize : Oliver Schwarzwald, Germany
Animals vs. Jewellery
3rd Prize : Hiroshi Watanabe, Japan
Meaty Foodscape
Francesco Amorosino (b. 1984) has a Master in Photography from Scuola Romana di Fotografia and a Masters in Journalism from Università della Basilicata. Amorosino is based in Rome where he works as a photographer, journalist and photo guide. He collaborates with Luz Photo Agency.
http://www.francescoamorosino.com
EXHIBITION
Sony World Photography Awards 2016
From 22 April to 8 May 2016
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
United Kingdom
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk
http://www.worldphoto.org/2016exhibition
