Mar 2007, Yonkers (NY). The soccer field of Yonkers where legal and illegal latino workers meet on weekends to play. Each nationality has its own T-shirt and colours, and play taking turns in a well-organized tournament. However, all this remains invisible for local residents, who only look from a distance at the muddy playgrounds. This very same distance I wanted to portrait with my pictures.
Rocco Rorandelli was born in Florence in 1973. After his Ph.D. in Biology he decided to commit to photography. Having developed a profound interest in social and environmental issues, he has portrayed stories from Africa, America, Europe. His photos have been published in D di Repubblica, Vanity Fair, Corriere della Sera, as well as shown in exhibits in Europe and the U.S. His work has also been utilized in numerous advertising, fundraising and awareness campaigns of various social. He is one of the funding members of the collective TerraProject and now represented by Grazia Neri Agency.
