Via Anelli is a complex of six buildings where most of the apartments are occupied by prostitutes and drug dealers.Photo © Filippo Massellani All Rights Reserved
Italy: The Wall Of Via Anell
"During the end of the 1990’s Via Anelli became the center for prostitution and drug dealing of the city. In the summer of 2006, after a mass riot for the control of drug market between gangs of immigrants from Morocco and Nigeria, the municipality decided to build a wall surrounding the “ghetto” and to place police check-point to the entrance of the complex."
So stated photojournalist Filippo Massellani, who went to the six building complex in Padova northern Italy that was originally slated to become a student residence to document daily life inside the walls of what has become one of Italy's most precarious communities instead.
This unique neighborhood is the subject of Massellani's photo essay Italy: The Wall Of Via Anell, now appearing on Gaia Photos.
Gaia Photos is a new international photography source comprised of 41 photojournalists from around the world whose mission is to promote quality and diversity in documentary photography.
Born in Ferrara, Italy in 1978, Filippo Massellani's interest is in documentary and social photography.
His publications include: Il Venerdì, La Repubblica, Peace Reporter, Carta Poster of "La Fabbrica dei tedeschi", a docu-fiction presented on the Venice Film Festival.
Filippo Massellani makes his home in Italy and he's available for assignments.
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