This project explores Search and Rescue operations, documenting the courage and emotional weight carried by those who choose to save lives abandoned to the sea. The visual narrative weaves together themes of migration, resilience, and solidarity, with the aim of raising public awareness and sparking dialogue on the great humanitarian challenges of our time.
Copyright photo: © Max Cavallari for SOS HUMANITY
SOS Humanity is a non-governmental search and rescue organization founded in Berlin in 2015, working toward a world where everyone’s human rights are respected. Its mission is built on three pillars: saving lives at sea, protecting and assisting survivors, and documenting the conditions faced by people fleeing their homes in order to advocate for political change. Since 2016, the organization has rescued more than 39,600 children, women, and men in the Central Mediterranean.
Max Cavallari is a documentary photographer based in Bologna, Italy, where he studied Communication and Journalism.
He focuses on migration, technology, and the environment, and the intertwined relationship between these three themes.
For several years, he has collaborated with various NGOs in the Mediterranean Sea on search-and-rescue missions. He is the official photographer for the ANT Italia Foundation. He collaborates with the ANSA agency.
His work has been published in national and international magazines and newspapers, from L’Espresso to The New York Times. He exhibited his work at Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, MUDEC in Milan, the Shanghai Photo Fair, and elsewhere.
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