Tag: Clara Vannucci

Somewhere between improvisation and imperialistic insignia: equipped with a Leica Q, Clara Vannucci travelled back through time in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea.

Exploring Eritrea's Italian Past

Clara Vannucci looks at the secluded country's history

“Everybody in Italy has someone in his family that lived or worked in Eritrea,” says photographer Clara Vannucci, whose own great-grandfather worked as a doctor in the former colony. And yet, she says, nobody in Italy seems to talk about it today. “At school, we spend a lot of time studying World War II but we didn’t study Eritrea, even though it’s part of the history of our country.”