In Kerala state, every year thousands of people being
abandoned on the streets by their families. The addiction to
alcohol or drugs, rather than merely suffering from mild
emotional disturbances, represent a stain to hide in order to
safeguard the good name of the family. Very often, the outcasts
take refuge in alcohol which affects the mental health, and
increase the number of alcoholics in this country, the highest of
the entire Indian sub-continent.
In Kerala, as in most parts of India, the shame, for diseases or
heatlh disorders of various kinds that may affect social status, is
something to hide from the society, it’s a taboo, a stigma which
ashamed of.
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.
