Gualazzini takes us into that side of Africa we prefer to ignore. He shows us eyes we'd prefer not to meet, circumstances we'd like to believe don't concern us and that vanish from our hearts because they're so far away. But they're moving ever closer, and one of the significant merits of this book is to sharpen our sensibility to the wretched fate of these children, men and women, and to prompt at least a moment of reflection on our privileged lives. Seen from this point of view, this is not a book of photographs, and Gualazzini is not so much a photographer as a witness, a messenger, an ambassador bearing a message of huge importance.
