NoWay! is a project born from the collaboration between photographer Fabrizio Spucches, Mediterranea Saving Humans and the Milan-based Still Fotografia Gallery.
The idea comes from the tragic events of 15th March 2024 shipwreck off the coast of Libya, which claimed more than 50 lives, including an infant. The shipwrecked people were not rescued despite repeated calls for help; rather, they were abandoned at sea with the broken-down boat for a week. Sadly, this is just one of many cases of failure to assist, making European states and the European Union itself responsible for thousands of deaths in the central Mediterranean.
NoWay! wants to shake the conscience of public opinion, now anesthetized to the tragic plight of migrant people, who every day, for too many years, have been dying at sea in general indifference. Spucches’ images, in which truth and mise-en-scene intertwine to create a context so surreal that it becomes sadly real, aim to reach the heart of the viewer, to solicit a concrete emotional response, in antithesis to the media and political talks on the issue of migration in the Mediterranean.
His photography is able to certify the contradictions of our existence. NoWay! Is a visual project that seeks to crystallize a memory that otherwise risks to fade away. NoWay! manages to circumvent the deception of photography and forces us to take note of a tragedy that affects everyone. No one excluded. It is an invitation to awareness. It is a chance to express, with courage, what today appears as silent and invisible.”
