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war | religion by Marco Di Lauro

war | religion by Marco Di Lauro

war | religion by Marco Di Lauro

AUTHOR:

Marco Di Lauro

CLIENT:

progetto personale

PHOTO:

Marco Di Lauro

YEAR:

2006  – 2003 

LINKS:

Marco Di Lauro

Marco Di Lauro through this photographic project, borns from a selection of some photos taken during his many travels on war territories, invites us to reflect on the explicit bond between war and religion.

Tyre, Lebanon – July 23, 2006 – Photo: Marco Di Lauro

On your site you have several photo collections, one of them is “war and religion”.

I believe that in the end there is a kind of religion in every war because of the way it is fought.

Religion itself is often the reason why war begins. Religion is a very powerful tool for wielding control over people and thanks to this people can be directed towards the goals desired by religious leaders or whoever. During my career I have got to know various places steeped in religion, including Italy, but I must say that my judgment is very negative.

Al Musayyib, Iraq – May 27, 2003 – Photo: Marco Di Lauro

I must also admit that on our continent there is a strong naivety about how other religions and cultures, different to ours, are seen.

  • ROME. ITALY - OCTOBER 16: Emergency workers and Police Officers hold a blanket as they carry out of a subway station the body of a person who died when a train collided into the back of another train in downtown Rome on October 16, 2006 in Rome,Italy. On Tuesday, one person was killed and 50 wounded when a subway train collided into the back of another train at a train station in downtown Rome. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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  • AL MUSAYYIB, IRAQ- MAY 27. An Iraqi child jumps over a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where the body have been brought from a mass grave, to be identified, discovered in the desert in the outskirt of Al Musayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad, May 27, 2003. It has been estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqis had been reported missing in the region south of Baghdad. People have been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam's government crushed a Shi'ite uprising following the 1991 Gulf War. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
  • BEIRUT, LEBANON - AUGUST 19: on August 19, 2006 in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik in Beirut, Southern Lebanon. Most of the people going around in Southern suburbs of Beirut are Lebanese leaving in other neighborhood who came to see and photograph the destruction and to collect Hezbollah posters. Hezbollah pose banners on top of each destroyed buildings reading: " Made in USA, Trade Mark, The Divine Victory " the local residents are not coming back to leave to those areas due to the destruction, the suburbs are becoming an amusement attraction. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
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From our interview to Marco Di Lauro

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