« Italian East Africa » (AOI) – this is the way the italians used to call the territories of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia as when occupied during the Fascist period. The occupation of these territories was brief – only 7 years for Eritrea, some decades for Ethiopia and Somalia – but it left deep scars, which remain to this day. This project by the Roman photographer Marco Barbon, who lives and works in Paris, proposes to document photographically this unique syncretism, between the shapes and lines of modernist architecture and the characters of contemporary African society.
