the bird's man

• Photographer
  nevia elezovic, France
• Studio
  ennevia photography
• Website
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Giuseppe is 69 years old. He is originally from Calabria, Italy. He
has lived in France since the 18th August 1970 but never gave up
his Italian citizenship.
He lived in a pleasant apartment in the oldest yet most up-to-date
neighbourhood in Paris, the Marais. He worked in a bank. He paid
his taxes. He had children.
Nine years ago, after retiring, he started feeding the pigeons near
his apartment.
He had no idea that because of this simple and harmless act, that
even his flat would be taken away from him. Giuseppe was thrown
out of his home because, regardless of all intimidation, he kept
feeding the neighbourhood's pigeons.
He started living in a car.
But this was only the beginning.
Giuseppe has been subjected to several assaults, both verbal and
physical.
If the first have eroded his soul is not known.
However the latter surely left him with severe health issues.
Every morning Giuseppe wakes up before sunset and starts
walking toward his feathered friends who await him punctually in
different spots of the city until dawn.
He has a thirteen thousand euro fine which he is paying and will
be paying for until 2025.
At the end of the day he takes the sick pigeons he has found along
his way to an organisation that takes care of them.
He gets back to his van, lets go of the bag he has dragged, for
almost twenty hours and falls to sleep. Giuseppe asks for justice:
asks to be given back the apartment which was unjustly taken
away from him, asks that those who have thrown him out on the
streets be prosecuted for abusing their powers, and that his story
not be forgotten and that the pigeons, like himself, may live in
peace in the world’s most romantic city.

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