Tibet

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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Gruppo di persone in posa all'esterno davanti a una tenda ospedaliera, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)

Tibet


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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Un bambino in braccio al nonno, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Una bambina in spalla alla madre, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Un medico visita il braccio ferito di una donna, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Un medico visita un uomo con cicatrici da ustione sul volto, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-022-08
Un'infermiera sorride accanto a un bambino con una profonda ferita sulla guancia, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-018-10
Una bambina operata al labbro leporino, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-016-26
Uomo con malformazioni in volto in un ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-016-21
Medici controllano un bambino con cicatrici sulla schiena e sulle natiche, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-016-02
Una donna allatta al seno il figlio, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Due donne attendono fuori da una sala operatoria dove i medici stanno operando, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Medici chirurghi operano un paziente in un ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-011-06
Medici monitorano e operano bambini in un ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Una donna china sul figlio a letto in ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-032-15
Fedeli in preghiera, 2004
Lasa (Tibet)
102-032-05
Una donna con un bambino in spalla, circondati da altre persone del luogo, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-025-22
2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Un uomo e il nipote seduti per terra in un ospedale e un medico dietro di loro, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Una bambina e la madre in un punto di raccolta dell'ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-020-15
Una donna operata al labbro leporino siede con una ciotola di zuppa tra le mani, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Bambino con cicatrici da ustione sul volto e sulle mani, davanti ad altre persone in una stanza di ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Un bambino operato al volto siede in braccio al padre su un letto di ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-019-09
Uomini e bambini in un punto di raccolta ospedaliero, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-018-06
Una donna operata al labbro leporino, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-017-18
Un uomo e il nipote seduti per terra sorridono, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Una donna e il figlio con labbro leporino, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Persone in attesa all'interno dell'ospedale, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Ragazzo con labbro leporino, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Ritratto di donna con malformazione alla bocca, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
102-010-02
Bambina con labbro leporino in braccio a un uomo, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)
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Gruppo di persone operate al labbro leporino, 2004
Shigatse (Tibet)