Photojournalism nominee

This work aims to show the terrible reality in which many young Nigerian women are forced to live and prostitution. Most of them come from Benin City (Edo State). Here there is a high degree of degradation and abandonment, there is no work, there is much oil but gasoline is not there, the families are in shambles, do not send you to school, especially if you are a female and your father will often sell for a few dollars to well-dressed Messrs. So their exploitation often born with an agreement that is signed with the families of the girls back in their country. Girls are promised a job with which they can then help their entire family, and with this lie many of them are in Italy and Europe. Once they reach their destination they are forced into prostitution by threats and personal reprisals on families. All this is now believed to be a new and modern form of slavery.

Pietro Di Giambattista born in Pannarano (BN) in 1956 and he lives and works in Rome. After having studied technical studies he started a full-time classical guitar course and in 1991 he became a performer. He decided to give up the study of the guitar and dedicated himself to photography, devoting his attention mainly to landscapes and portraits. In 1992 he won the 1st prize in a national photography competition at Ercolano (Napoli). In 1997 he enrolled at a Photography Workshop in Toscana held by the famous English landscape photographer Eddie Ephraums. From that time onwards he started taking part into workshops that will determine his professional growth. He also had the chance to meet Paolo Pellegrin and Antonin Kratochvil. In the year 2000 he met Francesco Zizzola in Massa Marittima at the Toscana Fotofestival and at the Polaroid workshop he met Maurizio Galimberti. He attended a workshop with Michael Ackerman and later with Yury Kozyrev in Rome. He also enrolled in some courses at thePermanent School of Photography "Graffiti" in Rome, directed by Gianni Pinnizzotto and also attended the start-up to the profession of photojournalism with Rolando Fava . In 2002 he sent a selection of portraits that are