Mostafa is a Syrian refugee from Damascus, that arrived in Lebanon in 2012. Today, at the
age of 15, he is one of the many street children of Beirut. While selling pens in the
streets, he also tries to live his childhood and, with the help of NGOs (such as
International Rescue Committee), Mostafa wants to have an education that will help him to
live a brighter future that today is still uncertain.
To be a street child like Mostafa is not a choice or a dream, it is a consequence of the
path of life. Hopefully just a moment of transition in a child’s life.
Andrea Falcon is an Italian/German professional journalist and photographer, based in Rome. He travelled all over the world to cover the biggest sport events for a sailing magazine where he worked as an employed journalist and photographer for more than twenty years. Lately he started to work free lance, undertaking personal projects and long term stories widening his interest from sport to social and travel subjects. With his photoreportage activity he also lived experiences with NGO's street children education projects. Photography lead him to become a journalist. He first handled a real reflex camera at the age of 16, when he started to attend an amateur photo club. He learnd to be a journalist and photographer directly on the field but he never stop to study attending regularly masterclasses and workshops with world reknown photographers and photo editors.
