Bolivia

Italy Interplast project

Federico Saredella For several years, you’ve been following the movements of doctors who work with the Italy Interplast project, an organization that operates in developing countries, and whose volunteers specialize in reconstructive plastic surgery, intervening to remedy serious defects, burns, cancer, and all kinds of facial trauma; you document their work with your photos. […] the photographs that you take for Interplast Italy document […] faces disfigured by birth defects, by mutilation, by war, which are going to treated, are captured before and after reconstruction.


Carlo Orsi Entering the operating room and encountering this reality, which was new to me, was very hard. I remember the first time so well, in Tibet. It was a shock: there was blood everywhere and seeing these children who were so marked left me unable to react. Then, after three or four days, I went into the operating room, what I saw had become “normal”, acceptable… Perhaps it was due to the fact that I hadn’t slept for three nights, and that I wanted to get out and to do my job, since I was there to work. Now, I’m not saying that I’ve gotten completely used to it all, there are still things that I can’t watch and sights that I don’t know how to handle. I really like photographing people before and after the interventions. I like to accompany them home, talk to them, get to know their families...


(No Photoshop e altre storie: una conversazione con Carlo Orsi, in Carlo Orsi. No photoshop, edited by Federico Sardella, catalogue of the exhibition at Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte, Turin, October 6 - November 18, [Turin: Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte 2011], 7-8)

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Bambino con medicazioni all'esterno del reparto pediatrico, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)

Bolivia


Italy Interplast project

Federico Saredella For several years, you’ve been following the movements of doctors who work with the Italy Interplast project, an organization that operates in developing countries, and whose volunteers specialize in reconstructive plastic surgery, intervening to remedy serious defects, burns, cancer, and all kinds of facial trauma; you document their work with your photos. […] the photographs that you take for Interplast Italy document […] faces disfigured by birth defects, by mutilation, by war, which are going to treated, are captured before and after reconstruction.


Carlo Orsi Entering the operating room and encountering this reality, which was new to me, was very hard. I remember the first time so well, in Tibet. It was a shock: there was blood everywhere and seeing these children who were so marked left me unable to react. Then, after three or four days, I went into the operating room, what I saw had become “normal”, acceptable… Perhaps it was due to the fact that I hadn’t slept for three nights, and that I wanted to get out and to do my job, since I was there to work. Now, I’m not saying that I’ve gotten completely used to it all, there are still things that I can’t watch and sights that I don’t know how to handle. I really like photographing people before and after the interventions. I like to accompany them home, talk to them, get to know their families...


(No Photoshop e altre storie: una conversazione con Carlo Orsi, in Carlo Orsi. No photoshop, edited by Federico Sardella, catalogue of the exhibition at Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte, Turin, October 6 - November 18, [Turin: Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte 2011], 7-8)

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Una mamma e le sue due bambine siedono a un tavolo dove il medico decide il tipo di intervento da fare, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Due persone sotto a un albero in mezzo al cortile dell'ospedale , 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Monumento dedicato a Che Guevara, 2010
La Higuera (Bolivia)
104-012-01
Piccole sculture, una rappresentante l'Ultima Cena, e biglietto su una mensola, 2010
Gutierrez (Bolivia)
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Preparativi per il Capodanno, 2010
Ipita (Bolivia)
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Rainaldo Changaray Vaca, 2010
Karaguatarenda (Bolivia)
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Medico seduto di spalle, iniziali HMC (Hospital Municipal de Camiri) sulla maglietta, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Frate Tarcisio responsabie dell'Escuela de la salud del Chaco, 2010
Gutierrez (Bolivia)
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Medico gioca con una macchinina in una sala operatoria, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Bambino sottoposto a un'operazione, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Bambina con amputazione sottoposta a un intervento, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Medico conduce una bambina su una brandina fuori dalla "area nera", 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)
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Bambina con ustioni e braccio amputato su un letto, 2010
Ospedale Municipale, Camiri (Bolivia)