Uganda

Italy Interplast project

Federico Saredella For several years, you’ve been following the movements of doctors who work with the Italy Interplast project, an organization that operates in developing countries, and whose volunteers specialize in reconstructive plastic surgery, intervening to remedy serious defects, burns, cancer, and all kinds of facial trauma; you document their work with your photos. […] the photographs that you take for Interplast Italy document […] faces disfigured by birth defects, by mutilation, by war, which are going to treated, are captured before and after reconstruction.


Carlo Orsi Entering the operating room and encountering this reality, which was new to me, was very hard. I remember the first time so well, in Tibet. It was a shock: there was blood everywhere and seeing these children who were so marked left me unable to react. Then, after three or four days, I went into the operating room, what I saw had become “normal”, acceptable… Perhaps it was due to the fact that I hadn’t slept for three nights, and that I wanted to get out and to do my job, since I was there to work. Now, I’m not saying that I’ve gotten completely used to it all, there are still things that I can’t watch and sights that I don’t know how to handle. I really like photographing people before and after the interventions. I like to accompany them home, talk to them, get to know their families...


(No Photoshop e altre storie: una conversazione con Carlo Orsi, in Carlo Orsi. No photoshop, edited by Federico Sardella, catalogue of the exhibition at Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte, Turin, October 6 - November 18, [Turin: Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte 2011], 7-8)

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Little girl holding food in her hand, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)

Uganda


Italy Interplast project

Federico Saredella For several years, you’ve been following the movements of doctors who work with the Italy Interplast project, an organization that operates in developing countries, and whose volunteers specialize in reconstructive plastic surgery, intervening to remedy serious defects, burns, cancer, and all kinds of facial trauma; you document their work with your photos. […] the photographs that you take for Interplast Italy document […] faces disfigured by birth defects, by mutilation, by war, which are going to treated, are captured before and after reconstruction.


Carlo Orsi Entering the operating room and encountering this reality, which was new to me, was very hard. I remember the first time so well, in Tibet. It was a shock: there was blood everywhere and seeing these children who were so marked left me unable to react. Then, after three or four days, I went into the operating room, what I saw had become “normal”, acceptable… Perhaps it was due to the fact that I hadn’t slept for three nights, and that I wanted to get out and to do my job, since I was there to work. Now, I’m not saying that I’ve gotten completely used to it all, there are still things that I can’t watch and sights that I don’t know how to handle. I really like photographing people before and after the interventions. I like to accompany them home, talk to them, get to know their families...


(No Photoshop e altre storie: una conversazione con Carlo Orsi, in Carlo Orsi. No photoshop, edited by Federico Sardella, catalogue of the exhibition at Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte, Turin, October 6 - November 18, [Turin: Raffaella De Chirico Galleria d’Arte 2011], 7-8)

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L'avviso, 2008
Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Woman hugging her son after he has been examined by a doctor, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Doctor applying stitches after performing surgery on a person's cleft lip, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Three doctors treating a child who is lying in bed, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Man with scars and deformities on his hands examined by doctors, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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A group of people holding cards, waiting outside the hospital, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Inside the hospital, woman wearing a face mask and carrying on her back a child with burn scars on his face, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Child with large burn scars examined with a stethoscope while a woman supports him, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Woman and child with scars on their faces sitting at the foot of a hospital bed, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Woman with burn scars on her chest sitting on a bed, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Lying man examined with a stethoscope, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Doctors operating on a little girl's left arm, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Two doctors examining a man with deformities and scars, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Woman with burn scars on her face, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Man with bandages on his arms and scars on his face lying in bed, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Child under anesthesia undergoing surgery on his right arm, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Woman holding a baby in her arms, standing on a scale, looking at a man next to her, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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A person's deformed hand, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)
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Doctor leaning against the wall inside an operating room, 2008
St. Francis Hospital, Nkokonjeru (Uganda)
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Boy undergoing surgery, 2008
Mulago Hospital, Kampala (Uganda)