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Commission 2025
According to Young Care Italia, seven in every hundred young people aged between fourteen and twenty- five in Italy are caring for other members of their family. These, often invisible, young people deal with caring responsibilities that translate into an average of twenty-three hours a week dedicated to helping others. To explore this phenomenon in more detail, Fotografia Europea, in collaboration with the Community Care and Sustainable City area of the Municipality of Reggio Emilia ‘Youth and Care Project’ and FCR – Farmacie Comunali Riunite, commissioned the photographer Federica Sasso to document the reality of young caregivers.
After approaching them sensitively, Sasso came into contact with these girls and boys in search of patterns and differences, to draw a complex portrait that unites the particular features of a time of life marked by big changes and energy, with the awareness of a caring role that is often neither recognised nor valued, but which involves sacrifices, resilience and responsibility. Sasso’s visual research does not merely document but, through the use of different languages and media, analyses principles of social recognition and algorithms, suspended between real and digital worlds. To shed light on the impact of an often silent but fundamental role in the lives of many families.
