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Linda Dorigo

 

Linda Dorigo is an Italian photographer and journalist. She studied journalism in Trieste, Italy and has been working as a freelance photographer since 2008. As a photojournalist she has contributed to international publications such as Le Monde, L’Espresso, Der Spiegel, Marie Claire and a number of other European and Middle Eastern newspapers and magazines. She is a member of Kineo Film, an independent collective for the study and research of audiovisual communication, and of ODG Italian journalist association. Linda is currently working on a long term project about Kurdistan. Her book on Christian communities in the Middle East, Refugio, with Andrea Milluzzi, was published in 2015.

See more of her work on her website.

ARTICLES BY Linda Dorigo

  • Fatherland. The Mountains of Iranian Kurdistan

    Fatherland. The Mountains of Iranian Kurdistan

    When I was a child my father taught me to respect the mountains. Waking up in the middle of the night to see the sunrise from the mountaintop seemed, at the time, like pointless suffering. We did not lose time having breakfast because “you don’t eat before exerting yourself,” my father explained..

  • Life in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan

    Life in the Qandil Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan

    Photos and text by Linda Dorigo.

    The window is open and only the mice racing on the first floor interrupt the whistling of the cicadas. It`s hot. Wiria and his daughter Par-Wa nap in the living room, under the air conditioning stream. The family lives in Wasan, a village in the mo..

  • Women Under Seige: Stateless in Lebanon

    Women Under Seige: Stateless in Lebanon

    Lebanon, and its capital Beirut, are often represented by the media as islands of freedom in the Middle East. The well-heeled neighborhoods of Achrafieh and Downtown are reminiscent of a Parisian boutique; while nightlife in Gemmayze and Hamra could compete with the scene in Berlin. But, behind ..