Left Behind is a long-term photo reportage within the Republic of Moldova. If you want to support this work, please visit the page www.flamminio.it/fund

The first victims of migration are children. In Eastern Europe half of those who emigrate are women who, in most cases, leave their children at home, entrusting them, at best, to grandparents, or to elderly neighbors, or at worst, and too often, just abandoning them to fend for themselves.

I’m planning to make a number of long trips across different regions of Moldova where I can continue my photographic work to tell of the daily lives of both the children left behind and the parents who have emigrated abroad, mainly to Italy.

‘Left Behind’ blog http://leftbehindmoldova.wordpress.com