ABSTRACT
In the past two decades, Europe has experienced an epochal demographic redistribution, mostly because of radical political and economic changes or, in some countries, as a direct consequence of war. The most visible migratory flows were those that followed the disintegration of the Soviet empire with the collapse of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe after 1989 and those related to the so-called Arab Spring, starting in Tunisia in 2010. Both exoduses impacted the Italian borders and, for different reasons, had a large echo in Italian and international media—media that themselves underwent radical, fundamental changes across this period. This chapter explores the different photojournalistic practices during the coverage of these two events, in which I participated as a photographer and photo editor for different international wire services—the vastly understudied backbones of international journalism, as noted in this book.
