Immigrant Sisterhood was created whilst working with young migrant women in Sardinia. Below are two galleries, the first is my reportage of the project and the second are the images made by the girls themselves. For more information, go to project descriptions.
Below are the images the young artists took with disposable film cameras. They show their daily lives and living conditions in the reception centres in Sardinia, Italy. Artist names: Felicia, Success, Ruby
“The only thing you can do in the reception center is wait for time to pass. You just wait for your papers. It just didn’t make sense to stay there. I just wanted to keep going and have something to do.”
“When I am walking in the street, old Italian men think that all black girls are just prostitutes. They always say “Let’s Go!” or “How much?” They should stop to see all black girls like this, because not all black girls are like this. We have our own story, our own experiences. I want to say that we are all human beings and we don’t want to be seen as sex objects.”