Kodari Surviors

• Prize
• Photographer
  Vincenzo Floramo, Italy
• Studio
  Vincenzo Floramo
• Website
  http://www.floramo.it

On 27th april a second earthquake of 6.5 magnitude stroke at
17 km south of Kodari on the Nepali Tibet border.
Massive landslides definitely destroyed the already damage
Araniko Highway which is connecting Kathmandu to the Sino
Nepal border.
A week after the natural disaster 1500 people where still
isolated in the small village of Kodari where they are surviving
by sleeping in an improvised shelters.
Chilly temperature at night and uncertain future on when will be
possible to live the dangerous area had an heavy toll to the local
population.
Few helicopters from the Nepal army transferred from 12 to 40
people a day to a saver places, the small number of passenger
por trip created caos an hunger between the people that wait
every day for a lift.
The most adventurous people decided to walk down to the
valley for the 12 km dangerous stretch that connect Kodari to
Barabise where was possible to travel by bus to the capital.

• Biography
  Vincenzo Floramo, Was born in Trieste, Italy in 1968. After completing his studies at the Technical Industrial Institute, he began to live a nomadic life between Asia, South America, North America and Europe, which still continues. He has been committed to exploring, learning, connecting with and photographing the diverse expressions of human experiences that he encounters within these varied cultures. In 2002 he worked as a photographers assistant at Uta Tabea Marten in Berlin, Germany and in 2004 he attended the Metropolis photography school in Madrid, Spain. Recently he was present to a photojournalism workshop lead by the photographers Francesco Zizola and Lorenzo Maccotta in Italy. For the last few years he has been spending most of his time in India and Thailand where he has become involved with several groups. In Thailand he has spent extended periods of time living in the refugee camps, getting to know and photographing the Burmese there. With this project he collaborated with Amnesty Internationalâ??s magazine in Denmark, and exhibits his pictures in Barcelona and Madrid. In India he has become intimately involved with the customs, celebrations, institutions, and street life people of Varanasi. He presently lives between Spain,Denmark and South East Asia.