With 3.041 people reported missing or dead in 2023, the Central Mediterranean Sea is the deadliest border to Europe. Departures from Tunisia, mostly from the area of Sfax, more than doubled. As the EU cooperates with Tunisia to stop migration, the country is slipping back towards dictatorship and is considered unsafe for migrants. In a generalized wave of violence, the government ordered a manhunt to forcibly expel refugees from Sfax into the desert. Controlled by smugglers, without water, food, or shelter, surviving migrants had to turn olive trees into homes while waiting to cross the sea.
Award-winning freelance visual journalist. Her work spans issues relating to social justice, anthropology, human rights, identity, the environment, and food production. Raised in the Italian Dolomites, she is based in Berlin. During the past years, she covered, among others topics, environmental crime, migration, border brutality on land and the Mediterranean Sea, and has traveled over one and a half years to the biggest Gypsy ghetto in Europe. Since 2023 she is represented by Panos Pictures recipient of the Journalismfund grant for an ongoing project about the impact of factory farming.
Awards LUCIE Foundation x 2
SIPA
A37
Photo Is:Rael
MIFA
APA
The Independent Photographer
Featureshoot's Global Billboard Project
Life Framer
Prix De La Photographie
