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Il World Press Photo è in mostra a Lodi al festival della Fotografia Etica 2022. Fino al 23 ottobre, dunque, si potranno ammirare da vicino le foto dei vincitori del grande concorso internazionale di fotogiornalismo e fotografia documentaria.
Dove? Nella sede di Bipielle, in via Polenghi Lombardo, a due passi dalla stazione centrale di Lodi. In mostra quasi 150 immagini: tutte fotografie che raccontano storie incredibili e che arrivano dai 5 continenti.

Saving Forests with Fire
© Matthew Abbott, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures
A black kite (subspecies Affinis of Milvus migrans) flies above a cool-burn fire lit by hunters earlier in the day, in Mamadawerre, Arnhem Land, Australia, on 2 May 2021. The raptor, also known as a firehawk, is native to Northern and Eastern Australia, and hunts near active fires, snatching up large insects, small mammals, and reptiles as they flee the flames.
Saving Forests with Fire
© Matthew Abbott, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures
Nawarddeken elder Conrad Maralngurra burns grass to protect the Mamadawerre community from late-season ‘wildfires’, in Mamadawerre, Arnhem Land, Australia, on 3 May 2021. The late-evening fire will die out naturally once the temperature drops and moisture levels rise.
Saving Forests with Fire
© Matthew Abbott, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures
Stacey Lee (11, left) sets the bark of trees alight to produce a natural light source to help hunt for file snakes (Acrochordus arafurae), in Djulkar, Arnhem Land, Australia, on 22 July 2021. 
Saving Forests with Fire
© Matthew Abbott, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures
A group of Nawarddeken women elders hunt for turtles with homemade tools on floodplains near Gunbalanya, Arnhem Land, Australia on 31 October 2021. They spent all day finding just two turtles, which are a popular delicacy. Soon the grass will be burned to make the hunt easier.

Amazonian Dystopia
© Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo/Panos Pictures
An aerial view of the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, Altamira, Pará, Brazil, on 3 September 2013. More than 80% of the river's water has been diverted from its natural course to build the hydroelectric project. The drastic reduction in water flow has an adverse impact both on the environment and on the livelihoods of traditional communities living downstream of the dam.
Amazonian Dystopia
© Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo/Panos Pictures
Members of the Munduruku community line up to board a plane at Altamira Airport, in Pará, Brazil, on 14 June 2013. After protesting at the site of the construction of the Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River, they traveled to the national capital Brasilia to present their demands to the government. The Munduruku community inhabit the banks of another tributary of the Amazon, the Tapajos River, several hundred kilometers away, where the government has plans to build further hydroelectric projects. Despite pressure from indigenous people, environmentalists and non-governmental organizations, the Belo Monte project was built and completed in 2019.
Amazonian Dystopia
© Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo/Panos Pictures
Stray dogs stare at meat hanging in a butcher's shop in Vila da Ressaca, an area previously mined for gold but now almost completely abandoned, in Altamira, Pará, Brazil, on 2 September 2013. 
Amazonian Dystopia
© Lalo de Almeida, for Folha de São Paulo/Panos Pictures
A member of the Quilombola community – an Afro-Brazilian community consisting of Black Brazilians, some of whom are descendants of enslaved peoples from the African continent – lies passed out drunk on a bench, in Pedras Negras, São Francisco do Guaporé, Rondônia, Brazil, on 29 January 2021. The process of providing land deeds to communities started by former enslaved people was already slow before Jair Bolsonaro's election. It has now stalled completely, as a result of the president’s resolve not to demarcate further land for such communities in the Amazon.
Sudan Protests
© Faiz Abubakr Mohamed
A protester throws back a tear-gas canister that had been fired by security forces, during a march demanding an end to military rule, in Khartoum, Sudan, on 30 December 2021. 
Afraid to go to School
© Sodiq Adelakun Adekola, Agence France-Presse
A classroom lies deserted at the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, northwest Nigeria, on 27 February 2021.
The Zebu War
© Rijasolo, Riva Press
Sergeant Stéphane, a commander in the Regiment of Intervention Forces (RFI) takes a fighting pose in Betroka, southern Madagascar, on 20 February 2013. The RFI operates against cattle raiders in the Betroka region and the Andriry mountains. In June 2012, the government had launched ‘Operation Tandroka' in an offensive against cattle thieves in the region. 
The Zebu War
© Rijasolo, Riva Press
Jean Maximis Nonon sits in his bedroom in Mataviakoho, North Menabe, Bongolava, Madagascar, on 25 November 2020. Military authorities see Nonon as one of the most dangerous dahalo leaders in the region. Nonon refuses to be considered a dahalo. 
Kamloops Residential School
© Amber Bracken, for The New York Times
Red dresses hung on crosses along a roadside commemorate children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, an institution created to assimilate Indigenous children, following the detection of as many as 215 unmarked graves, Kamloops, British Columbia, 19 June 2021.
The Longing of the Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken
© Rehab Eldalil
A photograph of Nadia (20), embroidered by her and her cousin Mariam (19), in St. Catherine, South Sinai, Egypt, on 8 December 2019.
Palestinian Children in Gaza
© Fatima Shbair, Getty Images
Palestinian children gather with candles during a fragile ceasefire in Beit Lahia, Gaza, Palestine, on 25 May 2021, after a protest by children in the neighborhood against attacks on Gaza.
Boundaries: Human-Tiger Conflict
© Senthil Kumaran
Bhuthari, a fisherman, explains how he was attacked by a tiger while collecting crabs, in the forest buffer zone around the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, in a delta region of West Bengal, India, 4 December 2012.
Boundaries: Human-Tiger Conflict
© Senthil Kumaran
Forest officials and veterinarians perform a post mortem on a tiger to test for poison, near the Anamalai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India, on 28 April 2012.
As Frozen Land Burns
© Nanna Heitmann, Magnum Photos
People walk along the Buluus glacier, which lies in a deep valley some 100 km from Yakutsk, and is a popular retreat in summer months when temperatures in the capital reach the high 30s Celsius, in Sakha, Siberia, Russia, on 16 June 2021. Permafrost beneath the glacier keeps at least part of it frozen through the summer months, but The Siberian Times reported local scientists as saying that glacial melt in the region has sped up in the past ten years. 
Ukraine Crisis
© Guillaume Herbaut, Agence VU’
A decapitated statue of Lenin stands in Cheminots Park, Kotovsk, Ukraine, on 19 December 2013. The statue was destroyed by ultra-nationalists on the night of 8–9 December.
The People Who Feed the United States
© Ismail Ferdous, Agence VU’
Aye Sway, a member of the Karen ethnic group, who have experienced persecution from the Myanmar government, is pictured at home in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, on 2 March 2021. She lived in a refugee camp in Thailand, before moving to the US in 2018. At the time of the COVID-19 outbreak she was working in a chicken processing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska, but says she was scared to go to work because so many of her friends became severely ill. 
Political Year Zero
© Louie Palu
Pro-vaccination activists wearing beaked masks, similar to those worn by 17th-century doctors during the plague, seek to draw the attention of spectators around Capitol Hill to promote the message that refusing to be vaccinated will prolong the COVID-19 pandemic, on 25 March 2021.

The Flower of Time. Guerrero's Red Mountain
© Yael Martínez, Magnum Photos
A Mixtec elder on the Cerro de la Garza in Guerrero, Mexico, on 31 December 2021. Every year, on 31 December, Mixtecs climb the hill to perform rituals commemorating the end and beginning of a life cycle. 
The Promise
© Irina Werning, Pulitzer Center
Antonella studies via Zoom, using her mother’s mobile phone, in her room at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 13 June 2021. Her parents are keen that she keeps up-to-date with her education, and, along with other parents, organize group studies and virtual get-togethers via WhatsApp. 
The Promise
© Irina Werning, Pulitzer Center
Antonella stands in front of a fake fur blanket, on the rooftop terrace at her family's home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 May 2021. She goes up to the terrace to wash clothes and enjoy the sun every day. The disruption to routines, education, recreation, as well as concern for family income and health leaves Antonella feeling afraid, anxious and concerned about her future.
The Promise
© Irina Werning, Pulitzer Center
Antonella yawns while studying in bed, in her room at home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 29 July 2021. She says she feels a lack of motivation studying at home, and often studies in bed as she doesn’t feel like getting up.
The Promise
© Irina Werning, Pulitzer Center
Antonella swings her newly cut hair outside the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 20 November 2021, after returning to school, having missed 260 days of in-person classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She wanted to have her portrait taken there because her ambition is to study engineering after finishing school.
Haze
© Abriansyah Liberto
A police officer wears a gas mask as protection against smoke from a peatland fire in Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra, Indonesia, on 11 September 2015.

The Will to Remember
© Charinthorn Rachurutchata
Protesters make a three-finger salute – popularized by the Hunger Games films – in Bangkok, Thailand, on 15 October 2020. Pop cultural symbols have become an important vehicle for protest.
The Will to Remember
© Charinthorn Rachurutchata
A third-year student at Thammasat University participates in a pro-democracy protest in Bangkok, Thailand. They say: “The younger generation is questioning the present and looking into the past to try and understand what happened. They want to understand what problems, limitations, and structural problems still cause issues today.”