Amica is a collaborative documentary project shot at the Women and Girls Safe Space in Palermo, between September and December 2020. The space in Palermo is run by the Centro Penc and assists migrant women and their children. Migrant women often live in situations of social hardship because of the absence of family members and the lack of friend networks. The WGSS is therefore a place to talk to one another and share fears and challenges, to find practical solutions and emotional support together. It has a participatory methodology. The women decide in groups which activities to organise: learning Italian, taking a sewing course, creating fanzines. During each activity at the space, there is the 'children space': volunteers look after the children while the women and girls can attend their courses - which is often a completely new experience as they are always with their children, lacking any other support. The goal is to empower themselves. They spontaneously agreed rules to follow, which they wrote down and put up on the wall. Together we did a photographic storytelling workshop. At first we paired photographs based on colours or themes, then the women and girls have been given disposable cameras and they have taken photographs. We then edited the photographs to tell their own stories. Moreover, we ran a series of studio portrait sessions, a pivotal moment in their visual empowerment: the women and girls have chosen completely independently how to be photographed, what to wear and how to pose. Then together we took photographs they have been able to identify with, photographs created for them as the audience, consumed by them. In this spirit we exposed all the photographs at the space. I am submitting this series of portraits because I believe the spirit of the space and the women who created it reflect the harmony theme of Urbanautica’s open call. The WGSS is a space of encounter between cultures and an act of authentic and harmonious integration in the Mediterranean, at the heart of the European migrant crisis. These extraordinary women created an extraordinary space.