The Human Frame
My work, as an actor and human rights campaigner, sits at the crossroads of human rights and the arts, exploring how creativity can reveal the deeper truths of what it means to be human. Through The Human Frame, I bring together artists, activists, and thinkers to explore how performance can become a form of resistance, empathy, and change.
The Human Frame
Through the Lens of Migration: Chiara Fabbro on Documentary Photography, Consent and Human Rights
In this powerful episode of The Human Frame, Łucja sits down with Chiara Fabbro, an Italian documentary photographer whose work illuminates the lived realities of migration, displacement, and human rights abuses across the globe.
Chiara shares her journey into documentary photography, reflecting on the ethical foundations of her practice, from building trust with individuals living through profound instability to navigating consent in contexts marked by trauma, precarity, and danger. Her work spans refugee communities in Kuala Lumpur, migrant squats across the Balkans, and the perilous Atlantic route to the Canary Islands, documenting both resilience and systemic neglect.
Together, they explore:
✨ The responsibilities and ethics of documenting migration
✨ How to build trust and obtain meaningful consent in unstable environments
✨ Stories of migrant women, trans individuals, and families on the move
✨ The tension between representation, safety, and dignity in visual storytelling
✨ The role of photography in human rights advocacy and public memory
✨ Chiara’s upcoming projects and the narratives she believes must be centred next
A conversation for anyone interested in photography as testimony - where the frame becomes a site of care, responsibility, and resistance.
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Host: Łucja Hawking
Music: Yago Cardalda