Left Behind is a long-term photo reportage within the Republic of Moldova.

The first victims of migration are children. In Eastern Europe half of those who emigrate are women who, in most cases, leave their children at home, entrusting them, at best, to grandparents, or to elderly neighbors, or at worst, and too often, just abandoning them to fend for themselves.

I’m planning to make a number of long trips across different regions of Moldova where I can continue my photographic work to tell of the daily lives of both the children left behind and the parents who have emigrated abroad, mainly to Italy.

That said I have been publishing each single trip in this blog and on my personal website (www.flamminio.it) and when the project is complete, I will publish a book, and donate some of the proceeds to several NGOs (Terre des Hommes, etc) who work with the children – and helped me – and produce web documentaries to publicize their adversity.

To achieve this I need your moral support and possibly financial. On this web site I will publish pictures and videos of my work to keep you updated on progress.

Thank you.

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