"Scarlet War - Malian Conflict"

The current war in Mali is the result of the coup of March 2012 and the offensive of the Tuareg and the Islamists in December 2012. The genesis of this conflict has really deep roots, and to understand their profile geo-political and ethno-cultural it is necessary to retrace the precipitating events that occurred many years ago. To date, the Malian conflict is still ongoing and remains a war, difficult to document because of the logistics of the clashes and therefore the geographical location, the clashes in fact, occur in sporadic random attacks on the vast Malian territory.

Paolo Marchetti was born in Italy, he has been working for eleven years in the Italian cinema and commercial industry as camera assistant, favoring the italian and foreigners cinematographers and began his photographic studies soon with particolar attention to political and anthropology issues. He attends several workshops with authoritative photojournalists, meeting frequently many educational initiatives in his country Paolo currently lives in Italy in the city of Rome and works as a freelance personal projects. In the last years he told stories far from home, creating reports in Brazil, Cuba, Europe, India, USA, Haiti, central Africa, central America realizing personal projects or collaborating with humanitarian organizations, but its long-term project, (main ongoing project), realizing it at home, in his country for three years now: The extreme right in Italy.