Oblivio

Populations with a common tongue, culture and traditions are nowadays in danger in Europe. They are at risk of cultural extinction.

Forced inclusion, poverty, migrations to richest countries, political persecution, mixed marriages caused the loss of identity for dozens ethnic minorities. Populations with a common tongue, culture and traditions are nowadays in danger in Europe. They are at risk of cultural extinction. They are starting to leave their culture for the prevailing one because they are splittered into small and far from each others areas. "Oblivio” is a photographic project born with the intent to tell the story of the European ethnic minorities that are going to disappear.

This project is documenting through photography these populations hidden in between the European history. These communities and their past are going to be forget in the next years. Seven countries, seven minorities. I travelled through Europe from north to south discovering old populations with different history, languages, traditions, religions, points of view respect the country where they have been settled hundreads of years ago.

Csàngò (Romania), Gorans (Kosovo), Sami Kola (Russia), Lipka Tatars (Poland), Pomaks (Bulgary), Arbëreshë (Italy), Gagauzes (Moldova)