The Danube is not blue anymore, it carries the history and the
consequences of the human actions. The Danube, an
astonishing river that shapes the imaginary of the region, is the
liquid metaphor of the changes taking place within the
continent.
Romania and Bulgaria are the two countries with the highest
number of kilometres on the Danube; they have been also the
latest countries to join the European Union. But Brussels is far
away from here, and Europe is still a place where to go to find a
job or a sign of an unfinished road. Bulgaria and Romania are
among the poorest countries in Europe. Behind the riverbanks of
the Danube, time is frozen in a moment between the present
and the 1989.
Awards Tommaso's works has been published in several magazines and newspapers such as Financial Time, Der Spiegel, Monocle, Popoli, Popoli e Missioni, Private online edition, Expresso, Helsingin Sanomat, Courrier International, Le Pelerin, Washington Post and Forbes Brazil. He collaborated with Unicef Mozambique, Comunità di Sant’Egidio and Habitat for Humanity Portugal.
In 2012 he won the first prize of the Environmental category of the Estação Imagem contest, the most important photojournalism Portuguese contest, with his reportage “The Last Forest” on deforestation in Mozambique. In 2013 he was finalist in the AddRetouch documentary photography contest and he was selected for the Encontros de Imagens – Emerging photographers prize. In 2014 he won the second place in the contemporary issues of the Portuguese contest Estação Imagem, he has been selected as finalist of Beca Autores Noveles 2014, he was finalist of the international award Revela, finalist of Photocraty Fund and of the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography Grant.
