They will destroy my house at Christmas
Cesare Lombroso's Roma camp located in the Torrevecchia district in Rome it has existed for more than 30 years, at least ten before the Municipality of Rome made it official. About 200 people live there, most of them minors. Most are part of the same family clan made up of the descendants of a Bosnian Roma couple came to Italy 50 years ago and from other refugees here after the war in Yugoslavia. Almost all have always been born and lived in Italy, the little ones are the children of family members once born here but almost all of them have neither Italian nor Bosnian documents. This prevent them from finding a regular job or being able to rent a house. Now the Municipality of Rome has decided to dismantle the Roma camps still present and for this camp in particular there should be an eviction this winter. Nobody knows what will become of the people and minors living here. If they will be dispersed they will lose the only form of support they have which is that of their community, children will not be able to continue to attend schools where they are inserted and they will lose all the relationships, both human and working, that they have created in years in the neighborhood. Above all, theirs is a community culture that does not fit ours atomized lifestyle in condominiums where many times you do not even know the next door inhabitants. This project wants to tell these people trying to give them a aiming to go beyond sociological and police statistics.
02/22/2021 Rome, Italy. Duda is one of the patriarchs of the camp, who came to Italy 50 years ago, the most of the inhabitants of her camp are descendants or relatives of her. 
02/26/2021 Rome, Italy. Interior of a camp house. Many of the inhabitants work in devaluation cellars therefore often the furnishings of containers are very heterogeneous. 
02/26/2021 Rome, Italy. Violetta plays with a toy car she has found who knows where. 
06/21/2021 Rome, Italy. the field is full of plants and trees planted over the years by the inhabitants. 
06/21/2021 Rome, Italy. Diego and the mountain of doors left over from countless cellars emptying. Posed portrait. 
04/13/2021 Rome, Italy. Two children’s cars and two washing machines at the back of a house almost to form a diptych. 
05/27/2021 Rome, Italy. Ginevra poses outside her wooden house. Most of the house were built before the city hall gave them containers. Posed portrait. 
04/13/2021 Rome. Morena holds her gold necklaces on a toy of Tweety the canary. 
06/14/2021 Rome. Ilary just turned 3, she loves being photographed very much because he wants to be a model when he grows up. 
06/27/2021 Rome. This is the first house built in the camp more than 30 years ago, before the municipality officially made the settlement. The house is heated by a wood stove built by Vehbija. 
04/21/2021 Rome, Italy. An ancient iron wagon wheel. The wagon wheel is present in the flag of the Roma as a symbol of their nomadic origins. 
06/27/2021 Rome, Italy. All the boys and girls in the camp, like all their peers, are very technological and spend a lot of time on social media. 
05/05/2021 Rome, Italy. Razia’s house is full of wedding photos taken from the emptying of a photography shop. 
07/20/2021 Rome, Italy. To overcome the great summer heat, the residents of the camp have equipped one swimming pool behind a container. 
04/23/2021 Rome, Italy. Vehbija came to Italy 50 years ago and, together with his wife Duda, is one of the founders of this field. With 10 children, 50 grandchildren and 150 great-grandchildren the majority of the inhabitants are their descendants or relatives. Posed portrait.