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Featured in Geo Italy in the July 2010 issue.

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-My story the Forgotten Italians will be exhibited from the 25th of April to the 16th of May at the Palazzo Comunale, Citernafotografia Photo Festival, Perugia, Italy. The Festival will be held on the 24-25th of April and 1-2nd of May

After the green talk at the Copenhagen summit, Kenya open again the discussion with a big investment policy in renewable energy which will take the country to be a referential not only for the African continent but also for the rest of the world.

African pioneer in the “green power”, since 1956 Kenya discovered in the Rift Valley the potential of the geothermal energy (today estimated to be 7000 MW) with the realization of the first two wells in the Olkaria volcanic site which today are producing 115 MW and designated to become 400 MW in the next years.

It’s 4.5 billion US$ the ten years plan investment put in place by KenGen for the construction of wind plants, solar-thermal plants (which is a new innovative technology) and for the expansion of the geothermal energy, which is going to determine an increase of the energy production from 1000 MW to 3000 MW before 2018 and up to 9000 MW before 2030.

Are of course ambitious goals that want to be reached, especially for a country with an electrification rate of 18% and which is called for important changes in political stability and in a fight against corruption.

I spite of this problems, there are already many countries that are already involved in this energy policy and not only economically. First in the list is Spain (which with an investment of 20 million Euro gained the exclusive for the construction of wind plants in the south of Nairobi), Belgium, France, Germany, China, Japan and informally also Philippines.

Text Mariangela Latella

Zucchero, Bruno Vespa, Leone di Lernia, Giorgio Napolitano and Bacio Perugina are only few of the 500 beach boys of Malindi. Guys between 20 and 30 years old, that to find an alternative to unpaid jobs they sell excursions, souvenirs and plenty of dreams.

For the hotels managers are a problem because they disturb with insistent proposes the clients and because they are a competition with the services offered by the resorts. Instead, for their families, are resources to escape from the poorness.

The most skilled (no more than a dozen) are able to gain till 800 Euro per month (around 80.000 KSh). It is a big amount of money, considering that 10.000 KSh is the average of the salaries of local employees, employed in the resorts.

The rules of the beach are made by the “mayor”, means the highest in a hierarchy invented by them. To become a mayor it’s indispensable to get at least 300 clients per year.

There is an estimation that the 20 local agencies based in Malindi have a turn over of almost 2 million of Euro per year even if the earnings for each beach boy (around 30% of commission) doesn’t reach 2000 Euro per season.

Text Mariangela Latella

-Featured in GEO Italy with the story Forgotten Italians.

-Published on 7.7 Documentary Photography Digital Magazine with “Forgotten Italians”

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-Belarus Free Theatre Exhibition, “VIE Scena Contemporanea Festival 2009″ Modena, October, 9/17 - 2009. Photos by Alessandro Vincenzi/Posse Photographers. Curated by Marta Posani and Beatrice Mancini. Video edited by Beatrice Mancini.

-Published in Witness Journal 25 with “The Transgender World”