Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Exodus (Chapter 2):
Ten of Thousands
Flee Central America

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Nicolò Filippo Rosso | Exodus (Chapter 2): Ten of Thousands Flee Central America
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Synopsis

PhotoDOC is a photo documentary project with an original format: short films based on the collaboration between a filmmaker and a photographer. For the three films in the EXODUS: Mass Migration and its Ripple Effect in the Americas, Italian photographer Nicolò Filippo Rosso talks to Spanish producer/director Jose Muniain about the work he has carried out over the past four years, traveling along the migratory routes that cross the American continent to document the distress and violence surrounding the exodus of the peoples of Latin America. 

This second chapter, Ten Thousands Flee Central America, looks at the disastrous consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, followed by hurricanes Eta and Iota, which ravaged Central America, driving tens of thousands of people to migrate to the United States via Guatemala and Mexico.

What you will find in this film

Latin America's migratory flows through the lens • photographs told by their author • black & white documentary photography • a long-term photographic project • a series that won the World Press Photo Award and the W Eugene Smith Award

Keywords

Digital Photography Reportage & Society Masters of Photography
I don't think when I take a photo. I try to take the best one I can and connect with the people I meet, so that these encounters can lead me to understand their condition.
When I observe the chaos of certain situations, I try to order it by observing it through the rectangle of my lens. I try to bring order to something that apparently has none. This triggers deeper reflections in the viewer.

Documentaries about photography, and about the people who make it. 
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What you’ll find

Portraits of photographers, names everyone knows and others you’ll discover here. Films about street photography, war, fashion or portraiture, about printing and historical processes. About the trades of photography too. And then suggestions for going further, with Focuses, articles, interviews, bibliographies.

A small independent team

Documentaries about photography were rarely shown on television, and hardly at all on streaming platforms. We created The Darkroom Rumour to give them a place of their own. We are a small team, and we choose every film ourselves, with no school to defend.

Inspire your photography

In these films, you see photographers at work, in the field as well as in the darkroom. If you take pictures, you’ll often come away with an idea to try. If you simply like looking at images, you may start to see them differently.

How it works 

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The authors/artists

Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Photographer
Jose Muniain
Jose Muniain
Film director

Further exploration

Selected bibliography

• World Press Photo 2020, Skira, 2020 (in French). Publisher · Libraries

• World Press Photo 2020, Lannoo, 2020. Publisher · Libraries

• Susan Sontag, On Photography, Penguin Books, 2010.

• Susan Sontag, Sur la photographie, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 2021 (in French). Libraries

Online

• Nicolò Filippo Rosso, website.

• Make.Media, website.

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