Photographer Daniel Castro Garcia speaks on his I Peri N’Tera project
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Photographer Daniel Castro Garcia’s I Peri N’Tera project contrasts with the typical imagery used to represent the refugee crisis in Europe.
In contrast, Castro Garcia examines the effect of migration on a group of unaccompanied minors arriving at a small, rural reception centre in central Sicily where himself and his partner lived and worked for several years.
The work is a collaboration between Castro Garcia and his subjects. It focuses on the psychological impact of their individual journeys and makes clear the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from witnessing extreme violence, kidnap and slavery on their journey to Europe.
I Peri N’Tera is a Sicilian colloquialism meaning ‘keep your feet on the ground’, used in conversation to tell someone not to get carried away with their dreams.
We spoke to Daniel Castro Garcia about the project, which features in The Camera Never Lies: Challenging images through the Incite Project as part of our What Is Truth? season.
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