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Namira

            This is a worth telling story. Last spring, I scrolled the IG feed of an indian photographer showing portraits of people captured on Mumbai trains. I literally fell in love with the portrait of a young beautiful albino girl. I knew only her name, Namira, that she lived in Mumbai suburbs, and that she could not see in day light. I didn't have any response from the indian photographer, so me and Roberto began a desperate research in what is likely the most densely populated city in the world (21 millions inhabitants). In the following months, Namira became something of an obsession, a symbol of beauty. She was by far the most charming, mysterious, interesting albino person we came across during our research for the Skin Project. When already hopeless in Delhi, we finally received the news that our man in Mumbai found out Namira's family, among millions! It was not easy at all to convince the mother to let her daughter be photographed by me. On the last day before our departure, when we thought to come back to Italy disappointed, our man called us all excited and sent us a car. We jumped in, and after two hours of traffic jam into the sprawling suburbs, we reached a poor neighborhood. Our driver knocked at a door of a mud house and... Namira herself appeared to us like a Madonna, like a vision. She was serious, shy, pouty. I was trembling all the time I was with her.
   

Taken on: August 21, 2017

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