At the beginning of World War One, Christians still made up 20 percent of the population in Turkey. Syriac Orthodox Christians are estimated at about 20,000, the majority living in Istanbul and the Tur Abdin plateau on the border with Syria.
During the summer of 2010 we were commissioned by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Imola to produce a series of portraits of the people living in the Santerno river valley.