Dreaming and Drowning: A Project of Visual Journalism on Borders and Europe

Through visual means, the online project Europa Dreaming constructs a wider frame around a local and short-term point of view: the history of the Brenner contains in embryo global processes and world histories. Moreover, the focus on contemporary times is merely a point of departure that helps put current events into a historical perspective. In this way, the project connects a very specific place (the Brenner Pass and, in general, the Austrian-Italian border) with a global issue and the current emergency with the historical given of migratory fluxes