Photographer's Showcase: Michele Palazzi & Alessandro Penso — Migrant Workers Journey

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Photographer’s Showcase: Michele Palazzi & Alessandro Penso — Migrant Workers Journey

photo-eye is please to announce a portfolio from the winners of the Center Project Launch competition — Migrant Workers Journey by Miche…

Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2011/07/photographers-showcase-michele-palazzi.html

Selected by juror Dewi Lewis of Dewi Lewis Publishing, Michele Palazzi & Alessandro Penso’s work documents the conditions of migrant workers in Italy. Coming to Italy from various locations in Africa, the workers often move around the country based on the harvest season, picking everything from melons to citrus, kiwis to tomatoes. Starting in August or September, the tomato harvest can be particularly brutal.