Le Journal de la Photographie

Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, May 2011 - Arianna, 27 years old, groupie. The scars on her back are scarifications © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, May 2011 - Tommaso, also known as Mase, 31, shows his tattoes; among them one is the word "Giulia" tattoed, that is the name of his dead daughter © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, June 2011 - Two girls invited by the company organizing the rap concert to keep the artists company © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, October 2011 - Roman rapper Rastykilo, 28 years old, renting a Mercedes to film his latest video-clip © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Milan, September 2011 - Milan's rapper Cris Bullet and event organizer Honiro sleeping together after a concert © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, August 2011 - The Odei Roma Clan, Roman rap group, during the torchlight parade for the Pepy's death © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, June 2011 - Mirko, also known as Er Gitano (the Gypsy), 29 years old, rehearsing a video-clip © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Milan, October 2011 - Emiliano, also known as Emi Lo Zio, rapper and bodyguard out of the Club Dogo crew, relaxing backstage. On his stomach, the tattoo portraying Milan Cathedral © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Milan, October 2011 - Rapper Salmo relaxing inside a discotheque after a concert © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, May 2011 - Dj warming up some cocaine to make crack to smoke © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Latina, July 2011 - Armando, also known as Er Chicoria, 31 years old Roman rapper. Imprisoned for four years for drug pushing and weapon possession, he's now serving the rest of his sentence at house arrest. In the picture Armando relaxing in his inflatable swimming pool © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - "Fair, Love & War: Rap in Italy" Rome, October 2011 - Mirko, also known as Er Gitano (the gypsy), 29 years old. He suicided himself three months after this portrait was taken by shooting himself in the head with a gun without serial number © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Aden, Yemen, September 2010 - Qat market. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Manakha, Yemen, August 2010 - Nearby the city - A wild dog scanning the horizon. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Ibb, Yemen, August 2010 - Two men taking care of the construction of a water tank for the collection of water. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Al Mukalla, Hadramaut, Yemen, September 2010 - A man resting on the seaside chewing qat. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Al-Mahweet, Yemen, August 2010 - Outside the city walls - Qat farmers giving merchants plastic bags with qat leaves. Then qat will be sold at the market. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Ibb, Yemen, August 2010 - A boy sleeping inside a car. © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Sana'a, March 2012 - 16th Street, next to the University - Friday protest - Thousands of women in the streets in order to ask the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh to be put on trial and hung. At the beginning of this year, Saleh, in power for 33 years, resigned the presidency and left it to th... Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Sana'a, March 2012 - In front of the Al Saleh Mosque - Inside the area for international presidential meetings - For the first time the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh publicly celebrates his 70th birthday with fireworks and music. Some supporters of the former president attending the event... Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Sana'a, March 2012 - Al Hasaba area - Three men on the roof of the Al-Hedaila Mosque, bombed by soldiers of the Saleh's Army © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Sana'a, March 2012 - Beni Hwat area - Radwan Ali Soliman (32) during the prayer. He was a soldier of the Yemen police Amn Merkezi - Central Security. Identified as revolutionary, he was captured at home with his brother by some police collegues. He was imprisoned and tortured with electric curren... Lorenzo Meloni - Yémen 2010-2012 Sana'a, March 2012 - A man inside a tent in the rebel camp © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Benghazi, January 2012 - Two rebels patrolling the city's streets © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tawargha, January 2012 - Rebels keep on setting houses on fire so that locals won't return to their hometown © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Inside the Old City (Medina) a group of men discussing at the black market for gold © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - During night patrols. A rebel pointing his AK-47 (assault rifle) © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, January 2012 - Portrait of Gaddafi in the werehouses bombed by the NATO forces © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Rebels occupying the Rixos Hotel where representatives of the Transition Committee live; they want to know how funds for the health care of wounded rebels are being managed © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Inside one of the rebels' barracks: man cleaning a FN FAL, a NATO rifle © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Rebels protesting before a building inhabited by representatives of the Transition Committee © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, January 2012 - Turret outside weapons werehouses © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Downtown: next to the Corinthia Hotel, a rebel is praying before inscriptions against Gaddafi regime © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Bab al-Azizia, former military barracks and compound. The operating base and residence of Gaddafi, first bombed by NATO, then razed and set on fire by the rebels © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto Lorenzo Meloni - Libye / décembre 2011 - janvier 2012 Tripoli, December 2011 - Women in the new city's cemetery, where they keep on burying the war victims © Lorenzo Meloni/contrasto