HOPE FOR PEACE

Photographer: Marco Romagnoli The Cardinals hurried to leave St. Peter’s Square, pushing their way through dozens of cameras. Like a wave, they swept me away and pressed me between their lenses. In that very moment, my mother called. At first — silence. Her voice trembled. “They’ve killed him…” she whispered. “At the front.” A boy from our family. In Ukraine. My arms grew heavy like stone. Not from fatigue — from grief. Tears ran down my face... The lenses stared at me like g

Photographer: Galileo Cheng | The Collective HK At the gates of the Vatican, "HOPE FOR PEACE" met the eyes of the Cardinals, hurrying out with thoughts of the upcoming Conclave. I was silent. But everything inside me was screaming. Five minutes earlier, my mother called on the phone: “They killed him! He was at zero.” A boy from my family. On the front line. In Ukraine. I trembled. I froze. I broke down. I cried. I didn’t leave. I stood. I stood in their path — not to shout,

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Photographer : Mauro Scrobogna