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 organisation founded in Berlin in 2015, working towards a world in which the human rights of all are respected. Its mission rests on three pillars: saving lives at sea, protecting and assisting survivors, and documenting the conditions of people fleeing in order to advocate for political change.
Max Cavallari is a documentary photographer based in Bologna, Italy. 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, and 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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