Wesh La Zone is a photographic project about young people daily life in the suburbs of Milan. The project has been developed since November 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic period, and it still ongoing.
The Italians of tomorrow - children from Morocco, Nigeria, Albania, Colombia and from many other nationalities - are growing up on the edge of the richest city in Italy. They wear the same clothes, listen to the same music, face the same problems and maybe challenge the same destiny.
The neighbourhoods in which they live extend to the outskirts of Milan and are dominated by the typical architecture of council houses, built between the '50s and '70s. Most of the time, these areas are sadly popular for being affected by poverty, criminality, drug-dealing and general degradation.
The luckiest children have a family that supports them. Others try to find their emancipation on their own, without any form of social security and support.
Many have embarked on a musical journey in which through rap can tell stories of their neighbourhood, their life and the desire for redemption that unites them. Some of them wear gloves and get into a ring. Others make graffiti all around the city.
Blood is the bond that keeps them united because together they face the same life, the same problems. Everyone is trying to build a better future with their own hands, an attempt to fight tooths and nails to get what was not given to them.