/ 2022 / Portraiture / Family

• Prize
  Bronze in Portraiture/Family
• Photographer
  ANDREA LAVARIA, Italy

Thu Thu(center)with mother Em and eldest daughter Rossana in their home in Veneto Italy.
Le Thi Thu Thu and her family lived in Saigon until 1983, arriving in Italy on December 24,1983 with the youngest children thanks to the possibility of family reunification, as her husband and his sons had escaped from the Vietnam in 1980 as "boat people"- as they have been baptized since 1979 people who sought escape across the sea to Hong Kong or Malaysia. For Her husband, arrested and tortured by the regime of the time in Saigon the only solution for the safety of the family was escaping from VietNam.