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ITALY - 900 LIMBS AND HOURS AND PHOTOS

If you read our

interview with Roberto Saviano

or have been watching

our conversations with him on VBS

or are alive in any capacity at all you know how bad the Camorra wants to toast his ass. Speranza Castillo is a photographer who was nice enough to share some of her photos of him with us, and now she has another Saviano-related project going on. It's called "If You Raise a Hand, Then All of Them Will Be Raised" (although apparently that's a bad translation and it's supposed to sound better in Italian), and it's made up of 900 photos of people, all having something to do with Roberto, holding up their hands and showing their faces in solidarity. And it's 900 of them because that was how many days he had been under police protection when the project was shown at a theater in Napoli. Some of them are big deal judges and politicians, others are just people who just read his book. The point is, they're all on his side. You might not be able to read the text on her

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(as it's in Italian), but we just told you everything you need to know. Click below to see a bit of the giganto grid.