Generazione Fukushima
A group of young Italian pre-adolescents, 20 days after the Fukushima earthquake, give their impressions. The radioactive cloud of the Fukushima nuclear power plant has risen higher and faster over their heads. But it’s not true that this had no effect on them. It has stirred fears, thoughts and fantasies, especially in the generation of those who are no longer children, and not yet teenager. For those aged 11 to 14 years, the Japanese earthquake and nuclear disaster was the first stirring of consciousness, the discovery of the outside world and its risks, and politics. A chain reaction of emotions and opinions on the path of growing up, from which perhaps there is no return. Besides that, simultaneously occurring events like war in Libya and landings in Lampedusa that amplified the feelings of insecurity that reigned . Here are their faces and their thoughts.
Zoe Vincenti was born in Milan in 1975, where she lives and works. She graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and from 1996 began to express herself through photography. For many years she worked on more personal and intimate projects . After 7 years travelling in Italy and Europe as a performer in a rock band, she returned to photography , with a documentary approach , projects focused on story telling for editorial and fine-art photography. Her images have been published in several national and international magazines: The Oprah Magazine, Wirtshafts Woche, Tempo, Wired, D-La Repubblica, Cosmopolitan, Internazionale, Riders, Rolling Stone, Touring .
Facing youth
September 14 – October 28, 2012
Mosteiro de Tibães
Rua do Mosteiro – Mire de Tibães
Braga, Portugal
