“My gaze was vague, confused. They were lost in embraces made of strips of pale, almost white earth. I traveled with light in my eyes, blinded by it. I delicately touched a hypnotic state that transported me elsewhere, to a place where reality did not exist. In this land of immense silences, where sky and earth embrace themselves, there are no borders. You move into infinity, looking into the eyes of the men of the desert. Step by step, until the last frontier.” – Giovanni Mereghetti (translated from Italian)
UIG congratulates contributor Giovanni Mereghetti on the release of his new book: “Mauritania, The Last Frontier”. The book is a journey through the vast, desert country of Mauritania and its inhabitants and environment.
Giovanni Mereghetti, photographer and journalist, works with leading Italian and international agencies, specialising in geographical reportage and social photography. Over the course of his career, he has documented immigration in Milan in the 1980s, the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, the Silk Road from Beijing to Karachi, the Iraqi embargo, Australian Aboriginal people during Australia’s bicentenary, and the Nuba people of Sudan. He has also carried out social photographic research in Italian prisons and studied migration flows from West Africa. He is the author of numerous books, including Hotel Bel Sit, storie di Migranti (Bertelli), Oltre il Sahara (Bertelli), and La scatola dei biscotti (Multimage).
His photographic works are part of the collection of the Archivio Fotografico Italiano. www.giovannimereghetti.com
To order the book, please visit https://www.multimage.org/libri/mauritania-lultima-frontiera. Proceeds from the sale of this book will fund solidarity projects in Mauritania
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