Invasions
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PrizeShortlist
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PhotographerFilippo Ribola, Italy
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Date of Photograph2024-2025
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CategoryAmericas
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StudioFilippo Ribola
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Peru has been experiencing intense internal migration for decades. Young people are the protagonists, abandoning rural areas, the heart of Andean culture, to migrate to large urban centers in search of new economic opportunities. Vast swathes of informal settlements known as invasions have developed around cities like Lima and Chimbote, often lacking basic services. Migration is not just a change of residence: the cultural, territorial, and political consequences are profound. Self-management becomes a concrete response to daily challenges, coexistence an inexorable collective necessity.
Filippo Ribola was born in Brescia (Italy) in 1998. After studying and working in the wine sector, he began to be interested in photography and soon discovered the potential of the photographic medium as an expression of his social commitment. Today Filippo studies and works in the photography sector, especially in reportage. From 2022 he began developing personal projects in social, environmental and humanitarian themes. In 2024 he started the project Somos Peru, an investigation of the fractures caused by the absence of the Peruvian state.
