When an earthquake destroys a city, it carries
everything away. But when an earthquake hits
a land like Nepal, above all, it takes away
colors, smiles and hope. Nothing remains...
except fot piles of colorless rubble and the
awareness that it’s not possible to start again
without remembering first what has been lost.
Bring Back Those Colours is a photographic
project by Jacopo Brogioni made in Nepal
between December 2014 and July 2015,
respectively, in the period preceding and
following the devastating earthquake of April
25 and May 12, which shocked the country
and its population.
The pictures Brogioni took in Nepal before
the earthquake portray with sensitivity and
professionalism faces, atmosphere,
spirituality, smiles of the children and the
people of Nepal. A description of local daily
life through “stills” full of great evocative
power. A set of colors enclosed in soulspeaking
shots. The same colours the country
has always dressed up ‘till the day of the
catastrophe and until the Unexpected, silently
occured, made them fade.
Photographs of the second journey to Nepal,
in July 2015, just portray those places, now
devastated, a population in the grip of a
serious humanitarian crisis, a country in which
those same colors are off. Two realities, the
one before the earthquakes and the one after
them, connected in purpose to highlight the
big differences of a region “twisted” by a
disastrous metamorphosis happened in a few
moments.
The purpose of the project, in favor of the
main organization for children's rights
protection, UNICEF, is to face the state of
emergency in which Nepalese people live,
starting from THAT colors that lit up the eyes
of immortalized subjects, unconscious of what
would have happened just four months later.
The "Bring Back Those Colours" project,
therefore, aims to donate to UNICEF Italy the
nett proceeds of the photo exhibition, of the
works’ sale and of other donations
spontaneously received.
That’s how art becomes an instrument of
hope for the achievement of an humanitarian
purpose.
The project consists of a traveling exhibition,
first in Rome and then in other italian and
european cities; and why not, in the world.
The exhibition will also be translated into a
book in order to reach as many people as
possible, to sensitize them, and to bring to life
this wonderful work even more than the
exposure.
Starting from images of now destroyed sites,
where memories of places that were once
uncontaminated are imprinted, Bring Back
Those Colours wants to launch a message to
the community. A call for help that rises from
rubble searching for human-to-human
support. Getting back those colors is a goal
that can be reached through the awareness
that solidarity can be friend and accomplice
of human being but, above all, a source of
value creation.
Bring back those colors.