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Elle Italia
Storie di bambine, infanzia da difendere e resistenza culturale, tra Gaza e Napoli
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Mahmoud Abu Al-Qaraya da Gaza e Raffaele Annunziata (tylerdurdan*) a Napoli, fotografano storie d'infanzia e resistenza, con la speranza più concreta dell’umanità
“An intimate look at two parallel childhoods, building a bridge between Gaza and Naples through everyday gestures and hope.”
Escape Vision
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Escape Vision – Feature
“Ci sono incontri che nascono per necessità, per l’urgenza di raccontare ciò che rischia di essere dimenticato”
Collater.al Magazine
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Collater.al Magazine
“Between Gaza and Naples. A Childhood Story captures childhood beyond war and highlights the resilience of ordinary life.”
Photojournalism Hub
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Photojournalism Hub – Feature
Social Documentary Network (SDN)
“Between Gaza and Naples. A Childhood Story is now part of the international documentary photography archive, available to audiences worldwide.”
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Social Documentary Network – Exhibit
Eu Reports (Colombia/Spain)
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Eu Reports - “Between Gaza and Naples”: A call for children’s rights
“Law speaks in articles; photography speaks in feelings”
P21 Gallery (London, UK)
“This work is not only a testimony but a promise: one day, Soso and Dede will meet, embrace, and play together”
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P21 Gallery - Between Gaza and Naples
“Un progetto che non è solo un racconto visivo ma un ponte etico - un invito a riconoscere che l’umanità merita di essere difesa. che l’umanità deve sopravvivere.”
Michelmonton (Italy)
Infopal.it
(Italy)
“Dalla sua pubblicazione, Between Gaza and Naples ha ottenuto un ampio riconoscimento internazionale”
“Salv l’anm”
Tonico 70 e Morfuco - Mahmoud Edit 2K25
Chennai Photo Biennale - CpbPrism
(India)
“Between Gaza and Naples - This Children’s Day, we would like to spotlight a project that follows the lives of two children growing up in two very different worlds.”
Between Gaza and Naples: A Childhood Story brings together two powerful perspectives -
Raffaele Annunziata (tylerdurdan*), an artist from Naples, and
Mahmoud Abu Al-Qaraya, a photographer from Gaza.
Through parallel images, the project traces childhood across two distant landscapes, different in reality, yet deeply connected through innocence, curiosity, and everyday resilience. It stands as a reminder that childhood is a universal right, no matter where a child is born.
More than a photographic project, Between Gaza and Naples becomes a narrative and ethical bridge , giving voice to those at risk of being silenced, and urging us to see, honour, and protect the childhoods unfolding around us.
Witness Journal
(Italy)
Photographs and texts by Mahmoud Abu Qaraya and Raffaele Annunziata aka tylerdurdan*
“Law speaks in articles; photography speaks in feelings.”
— Mahmoud Abu Qaraya
Between Gaza and Naples. A Childhood Story was born from the encounter between two authors raised in seemingly opposite worlds, yet bound by the same question: what does it mean to remain human in a place that burns?
Mahmoud Abu Qaraya, a 29-year-old photographer and filmmaker from Gaza, and RaffaeleAnnunziata aka tylerdurdan, a Neapolitan photographer and storyteller, weave together fragments of their childhoods — one spent under the bombs during the genocide of the Palestinian people, the other at the margins of Mount Vesuvius.
Politically Post
(Italy)
“BETWEEN GAZA AND NAPLES”: a photographic project reminding us that childhood should be universal.
While Raffaele Annunziata was capturing in Naples the simplest moments of his daughter Dede’s daily life—from brushing her teeth in the morning, to the walk to school, to playing with her friends in the afternoon—Mahmoud was documenting the life of his niece Soso in Gaza. The same activities, the same habits, the same smiles… yet an entirely different backdrop. Framing Soso’s childhood are ruins, tanks, and bombs. And yet, hope has never abandoned Mahmoud.
This double interview with Raffaele and Mahmoud took place before the start of the current and fragile ceasefire—specifically, at a time when the world was scrambling to establish the absurd yet much-debated definition of “child.”
The project also supports the campaign “Sosteniamo Mahmoud e la sua famiglia a Gaza”, which helps Mahmoud and his family rebuild their lives.
Thank you Mahmoud and Raffaele for your time.
Tommaso Rossato