TITLE: Right for the future in Ratanakiri

I travelled Cambodia alone, exploring its most forgotten places, especially the rural part of Ratanakiri, doing research on the conditions of the population almost fifty years after Pol Pot's regime. I spent days and nights with these people, becoming familiar with the people and making myself accepted by the children. What I discovered are people made up of a desire for redemption, eager to improve their conditions but still with clearly limited means. And so it is that, in places hours away from hospitals where hospital care in any case is economically unaffordable, where there is no electricity or running water, where rice reigns supreme in every dish and even a glass of milk becomes a medicine, even just learning a language like English from a foreigner is a great opportunity. A people made of dreams, far from a past they don't like to talk about, who barely fly towards a better future.

AUTHOR: Federica Albertazzi (Italy)

My name is Federica Albertazzi and I was born in Bologna in 1996. Since childhood I have been attracted to everything related to art, which allowed me to release the romantic and nostalgic soul that belongs to me, but only in recent years I found what makes me feel more understood: photography. I started with sports photos, in order to have a chance to socialize during the Covid period, and then approached travel, documentary and reportage categories, which have become a reason for living. Currently, I work as a saleswoman in a clothing store, but one day I hope I’ll be able to say that I am a professional photographer.