THE IMAGINARY LINE. Journey along the former iron curtain

Photographs by Davide Monteleone
  A project by Fondazione Italianieuropei and Contrasto
December 12th 2009 - January 24th 2010
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - Rome
Spazio Fontana
Via Milano 13

Over the past months many events have been organized to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demolition, symbol of the European division during the Cold War. Yet, the Berlin Wall is just a part of the long invisible border that used to divide Europe in two political continents. "The imaginary line" is a tale told throughout Davide Monteleone's pictures, of the long strip of Europe that on March 1946 Winston Churchill named the iron curtain:

Thanks to his black and white series on Afghanistan, and about the many difficulties faced by the Afghan populations after decades of war, Francesco Cocco has won the 13th Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, organized every year by Médicos del Mundo .