Mauro Zorer: 22 JUNE 1944: The children’s march – URBAN Civic Museum Prize 2024
The winning project by Mauro Zorer was selected by Claudia Colecchia, (archivist executive officer and head of the Photo Library – Fototeca and the Library of the Civic Museums of Trieste – Biblioteca dei Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte del Comune di Trieste), and Michela Messina (conservator of the Civic Museum Sartorio – Museo Civico Sartorio).
The project
The photographic project “JUNE 22, 1944 – THE CHILDREN’S MARCH” represents a touching journey through memory and landscape, in an attempt to preserve and restore stories that would risk being forgotten. The author, with great sensitivity and dedication, has been able to transpose into images a past that relives through today’s gaze, powerfully evoking the drama and beauty of life during the conflict.
It is precisely memory that is the core of this touching photographic project, capable of lingering its gaze on the present to evoke a time and a work that deserve to be preserved from any hawkishness.”
