Federica Fragapane

Moving Lines is a visual narrative of the journeys taken by people who left their hometowns in search of a better life.

In 2016 I started working on what I consider one of the most important projects of mine, The Stories Behind a Line, a visual narrative of six asylum seekers’ routes, designed with Alex Piacentini – @piaaaac. In 2021 I was contacted by Silvia Costantini – @viou.costantini – journalist who proposed using it as a starting point for a new project that – with the same approach – would tell other stories. Over the years she has collected new testimonies with great care, in Trieste, Rome and on the Italian-French border. I am genuinely moved to share this new project today, created by Silvia Costantini, Alex Piacentini and me.

Moving Lines tells the stories of M., M., M., B., S., O., I., A., R., F., M., M. and R. – asylum seekers who crossed countries and borders to reach Europe. The project aims to give shape to these stories and these journeys, walking step by step alongside those who have travelled them, tracing their path into a line. For every step of the journey, information was collected about the means of transport and the number of days spent travelling.

The interviews are ongoing. Moving Lines is not a finished project — quite the opposite. Its launch marks just the beginning, because the ultimate aim is to hand it back to people on the move who want to share their stories and leave a record of their lives, until one day every journey is equally possible, with the same rights and the same natural freedom for everyone to seek a better life.

The narrators were interviewed with the support of @ics_ufficiorifugiati and @liberi.nantes.

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