Roberto Ruscello>>>>

subject: Moustache Kosovo War

Roberto Ruscello is an Italian photographer, from Imperia near France.
Since 1997 he has collaborated with all the most important Italian agencies:
AP Italia, Ansa, Olimpia Milano, Infofoto Milano. His images are published
in Italian newspapers.

I met him 10 years ago, maybe more. We went to high school together, then
university, and then after we have kept in touch in different ways.
In October, we met at the wedding of a mutual friend. Between a couple
bottles of wine we talked little bit, some words, phrases. He is still the
same, now a photographer, working for a newspaper. He sells the photos to
different agencies, and he told me of his latest experience: war reporting
in Kosovo.

I purposed doing a section of MJA with Roberto, a section with his photos
with similar meaning, but filtered by him. Which cultural interference
could be found in the war? These are the images that he purposed using,
with the following expectation: to find a newspaper that would send him
again into warring territories.

Roberto is looking for new contacts. I personally wouldn't think it a good
idea if I hadn't see his eyes during the conversation.
All who are interested, please contact him by

email: <rusce AT iol.it>

Roberto Ruscello
MKW: Moustache Kosovo War
2000/2001
These nine images were shot during three different trips: april and august 2000 and february 2001. Thanks to GianMarco Melchiorre, travel partner.

Priluzje
A serbian refugee in Priluzje near Mitrovica.
A religious image, the photo of his kin, the wallpaper, the rift on the wall, the radio on the night table, his expression and everything else are saying one only thing.
Does the t-shirt mean the same thing?

 

Stanovc
Two students, Stanovc (Albanian)
In front of their future school. The tents indicate that the school is still provisionary.

On the road
On the road to Pristina Mitrovica and the advertising posters.
I still remeber the music, the atmosphere of a tv spot, The Brazil?, the smiles of the people working without any tiring.

 

Soup
At home, the scent of soup, mum's or even grandma's favorite flavor.

 

4 brothers
Four brothers and their parents
are all behind them, there, below the flowsers, the friend, the guy with the ugly shirt, it seems he has nothing to say. I observe, but the only thing I see is the position of the albanian boy, grown up in few seconds.

 

Mitrovica
Mitrovica, the landscape of the serbian quarter.
What is that strange construction on the moutain in the background?

 

San Marco
The San Marco regiment of the Italian army
during the guard of the orthodox church in Mitrovica. Strange, the sharpness of the machinegun and the tank coincides with the chapel of the church.

 

Sarajevo market
A old women sells the few things she has in the Sarajevo market.

 

The cable
The stove of the the construction workers at the albanian school, sponsored by the French government, Stanovc (Kosovo). It reminds me of vacation pictures. The stove is a person and the school a typical albaniana building.
And the cable?