Returning to Chatila

Photographer Ivo Saglietti follows the atmosphere in Sabra and Chatila, twenty years after the September 1982 massacre. Palestinian survivors of all ages cannot face the past, for the past is still the present, and nothing can bring back the 1,490 victims executed over four horrible days and nights. He shows through his pictures that life moves on with an new lively generation, who are doing more and more to shake the memories that are engrained on the often decaying walls of the town. He takes us along to meet the inhabitants of Sabra and Chatila, who live with the burden of their relatives’ absence.