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Articles by Rocco Rorandelli
The German lignite industry and the struggle for a just green transition
On a rainy November day in 2021 in the Ruhr Valley, Germany’s mining heartland, I sat with Helmut Kehrmann in his family home, in the village of Alt-Keyenberg. The room was empty, with the exception of a chair and a few boxes lying in a corner. Marks left by furniture and fixtures were still visible on the dusty wooden floor. This was the last time Helmut visited his house. Residents of Alt-Keyenberg are under eviction orders.
A photographer spent a decade documenting the tobacco industry’s darkest corners. The result is both stunning and disturbing.
Over the course of 10 years, Italian photographer Rocco Rorandelli traveled to nine countries active in the tobacco industry, documenting its impact on the environment and the economy, as well as on the health of smokers and workers. This massive investigative documentary project, supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism, looks through the “smokescreen” of the industry, as Rorandelli puts it.
Bitter Leaves by Rocco Rorandelli
About Risks and challenges If we raise the funds to publish the book, we do not foresee major challenges. Images have been edited, preface and captions have been fact-checked, infographics have been designed. Founded in 2013, GOST Books is an independent visual arts and photography publisher based in London. The Director and co-founder of GOST Books is Stuart Smith, a designer with over 30 years experience and renowned for his specialisation in typography and award-winning photo books.
Italian education reform? Just look outside
OPTICS In a culture often bound by tradition, alternative education is slowly gaining traction. Educating children in the great outdoors is not new. “Forest schools,” as they’re known, first appeared in Denmark in the 1950s. But on paper, Italy — which historically has taken a conservative approach to education — didn’t appear likely to embrace the idea. Ostia, a small coastal town close to Rome, is home to one of Italy's first outdoor schools.
Spices. Soil. Scraps of Paper. These Are the Objects Unidentified Migrants Left Behind.
lens Rocco Rorandelli captures the lives of the refugees and migrants who died crossing a river between Turkey and Greece through the things they carried Image A rubber bracelet, belonging to body #2514/9/27-C, the only object found on the corpse. Dec. 19, 2018 Calm on the surface, the Evros River between Turkey and Greece runs wild underneath, roiling withcurrents that tear apart boats and swallow up swimmers. Yet more and morerefugees and migrants are crossing it — or losing their lives trying.
Sicily Vote to Gauge Italy’s Mood
Sicilians thrust the antiestablishment 5 Star Movement onto the national stage in 2012 by giving the largely untested populist party nearly a fifth of all votes in regional elections. Now the island, a microcosm of the problems that plague the country, has a chance to set Italy’s political direction again in a fresh round of regional elections on Sunday, before a national vote likely in March. Unemployment...
Behind the scenes of India’s tobacco industry
BEGINNING IN 1910, the German photographer and anthropologist August Sander took thousands of portraits of his compatriots as part of a series titled Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts—People of the Twentieth Century. Sander strove to create a sort of composite document of the society he lived in, and classified the portraits under seven categories: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (a variety of outcasts and vagabonds).
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