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Krisis | SOS Ecuador | Prisoners in Ethiopia
Circus Festival | Uummannaq | Gorkha
The land eaters | The Madonna of the Arch | Isola district

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Krisis by Daniele Pischedda
A project about the relationship between immigration and integration in Sassari, Sardinia, where a large community of asylum seekers lives1

SOS Ecuador by Sebastian Castaneda
The images of the destruction caused by the earthquake that hit Ecuador last April, putting one of the most productive areas of the country to its knees

Prisoners in Ethiopia by Carolina Paltrinieri
The dramatic experience of the men and women imprisoned in the colonial penitentiary in Adwa, Ethiopia, who live in absence of the most basic human rights

Circus Festival by Alessandra Cecchetto
An intimate look on the circus world, a tale based on the experience of living with acrobats, which had also arisen from the wish to know and represent, without prejudices, their daily life and dreams

Uummannaq by Camille Michel
This series tells the story of an Inuit community based in Uummannaq, a mysterious island in the north west of Greenland, 590 km from the Arctic Circle

Gorkha by Matteo Fabi
More than a year after the violent earthquake that crippled Nepal, the reconstruction of many areas of the Country is lagging behind. The residents organized into an autonomous process of reconstruction of their homes

The land eaters by Alberto Sfoggia
In Italian north-eastern regions, the percentage of consumed territory stands at its top; buildings, homes and firms grow in number every year. Yet, some places are slowly being reconquered to nature

The Madonna of the Arch by Camillo Pasquarelli
Every year, on Easter Monday, thousands of people take part in the procession to the Sanctuary of the Madonna of The Arch in Sant’Anastasia, a small town on the slopes of Vesuvius

Isola district by Various authors
L’Isola (the ‘Island’), northern Milan district, is so called after the cut off from city center by the construction of the train station in Porta Garibaldi. With Expo 2015, this separation has been reduced and the Island is finally reconnected with the town

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Krisis

by Daniele Pischedda

A project about the relationship between immigration and integration in Sassari, Sardinia, where a large community of asylum seekers lives

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SOS Ecuador

by Sebastian Castaneda

The images of the destruction caused by the earthquake that hit Ecuador last April, putting one of the most productive areas of the country to its knees

Read more

Prisoners in Ethiopia

by Carolina Paltrinieri

The dramatic experience of the men and women imprisoned in the colonial penitentiary in Adwa, Ethiopia, who live in absence of the most basic human rights

Read more

Circus Festival

by Alessandra Cecchetto

An intimate look on the circus world, a tale based on the experience of living with acrobats, which had also arisen from the wish to know and represent, without prejudices, their daily life and dreams

Read more

Uummannaq

by Camille Michel

This series tells the story of an Inuit community based in Uummannaq, a mysterious island in the north west of Greenland, 590 km from the Arctic Circle

Read more

Gorkha

by Matteo Fabi

More than a year after the violent earthquake that crippled Nepal, the reconstruction of many areas of the Country is lagging behind. The residents organized into an autonomous process of reconstruction of their homes

Read more

The land eaters

by Alberto Sfoggia

In Italian north-eastern regions, the percentage of consumed territory stands at its top; buildings, homes and firms grow in number every year. Yet, some places are slowly being reconquered to nature

Read more

The Madonna of the Arch

by Camillo Pasquarelli

Every year, on Easter Monday, thousands of people take part in the procession to the Sanctuary of the Madonna of The Arch in Sant’Anastasia, a small town on the slopes of Vesuvius

Read more

Isola district

by Various authors

L’Isola (the ‘Island’), northern Milan district, is so called after the cut off from city center by the construction of the train station in Porta Garibaldi. With Expo 2015, this separation has been reduced and the Island is finally reconnected with the town

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#80

Witness Journal
Registrazione Tribunale di Milano
n. 257 del 16.04.2007

Editor in chief - Amedeo Novelli

Editorial staff
Giulio Di Meo, Nicola Sacco, Matilde Castagna, Luna Coppola, Martina Giordani, Cosimo Calabrese, Francesco Zanet, Stefano Pontiggia, Valeria Ferraro, Davide Barbera, Veronica Molese, Rosa Pugliese

Publisher - Witness Journal APS
Provider - KOLST


MANIFESTO
Witness Journal comes from the experience of a journalists and photographers’ team, joined together in order to create a different and innovative project in the information system. Far from the standard business model, Witness proposes a different approach to information, according to many different points of view. It's a free, online monthly photo-magazine developed by an editorial staff and thanks to the contribute of professionist journalist and photographers, as well as citizen journalists.
Distributed for free via the Internet, Witness Journal tells small and big Italian and international stories through images by professional photographers and amateurs. Firmly open to the contributions of anyone, Witness offers to the authors a journalistic limelight where they have the chance to express their skills and to promote their works. At the same time we offer to our readers a different kind of information in compliance with many different aspects. First, we consider images, and not words, all-important. The stories told by Witness Journal are reported exclusively on the base of facts, that is pictures. The articles – written by the photographers in cooperation with the editorial staff – add extra information to the context Witness’ editorial line tends to give voice to events and local stories and above all to what we can hardly find on main stream information. Thanks to the net we get in touch with a network of co-workers on the whole Italian territory. A network of professionists and amateurs who have the chance to speak out, thanks to the digital world and to Web 2.0 phenomenon. Witness Journal wants you to listen to their voices.

How to get involved
In order to submit your reportage proposal you just need to send an e-mail with 2 pictures and a short story description to:Witness Journal

Each submission must meet the following requirements:
a) the artwork’s originality
b) the legal ownership of the royalties and any other right
c) the realeses from people appearing in the photographs

The author, sending his photographs, takes all the responsibilities concerning the conformity of his work with the requirements above and hereby the editor excludes any responsibility about it, for the received pictures.

Each submitted project must consist in:
1) at least 20 photographs (1600@72dpi)
2) a short text no longer than 3.000 keystrokes (texts must give the reader the facts contest).

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