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Roberto Saviano at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, photo by © Umberto Nicoletti

Roberto Saviano at Zuccotti Park during the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, photo by © Umberto Nicoletti

Roberto Saviano, wins Silver Bear at Berlinale, but here he was in an earlier interview

E. Nina Rothe February 19, 2019

Roberto Saviano, to any Italian, is a figure that we constantly re-evaluate. I started out being completely taken by his apparent courage and in fact wrote the piece below after meeting him in secret in NYC. I named it “The Face of Courage” for the Huffington Post.

These days, his police protection magically gone, even though the Camorra is still going strong, he’s written the screenplay for an award winning film at Berlinale, and I am starting to doubt his intentions. Or even his provenance. When I wanted to catch up again with the writer and TV personality, he dismissed me on a couple of occasions. But regardless of my own experiences and thoughts about Saviano, this interview I conducted with him in NYC in 2012 is a great testament to something. I just have to figure out what… My good writing perhaps?

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In Celebrity, Interviews Tags Roberto saviano, La Paranza dei bambini, Berlinale, interview, Italian
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From the Front Lines to Fashion’s Front Row: Photojournalist Guy Martin at Pitti Uomo

E. Nina Rothe February 7, 2018

“I don’t want to be defined by it, by that thing.” Those wise words belong to photojournalist Guy Martin, when talking about the 2011 attack in Libya which injured him along with one other photographer, and left both Chris Hondros and documentarian Tim Hetherington dead. In a society that loves to place labels on people, for their achievements but most often for their misfortunes and mistakes, Martin is a perfect example of why such simplistic definitions are just plain wrong. 

We are, and we become who we will be by constantly reshuffling and adding up all of our life experiences — the good and the bad, the brave and the scary, the deaths and the births. British-born and Middle East expert documentarian Guy Martin represents a wonderful specimen of the possibilities of humanity’s resilience, and grace under fire.

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In Fashion, Interviews Tags Guy Martin, Photojournalism, Pitti Uomo, Firenze, Florence, Libya, Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros, Arab Spring, Tahrir Square, Misrata, Aleppo, nineteensixtyeight, Fondazione Pitti, Fortezza da Basso, Sala Bianca, fashion, war photographer, PTSD, Restrepo, Oscar-nominated documentary, Stefano Ricci, Middle East, Zen, interview
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