Martino Di Silvestro - photographs

Italian Sikhs

In lower Lazio, these workers are exploited, earning just two euros an hour with no social protections, trapped by the local “caporalato” system. Italian politics turns a blind eye, ignoring how low vegetable prices mask a fragile economy. In these photos, the workers aren’t just part of the landscape—they are the landscape, shaping it daily through relentless labor, living scattered among the abandoned ravines of the plain. The Sikhs embody the earth itself, telling yet another harsh story from the “lands of hope.”

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