Changed the worldview of this photographer who followed the butterflies in the world

In the early days of the pandemic, most people could not travel anywhere, Lucas Foglia became obsessive with butterflies almost everywhere.

Almost every continent, the painted lady butterflies are among the most prolifigijing of the planet. Especially a population, every year is traveling from Europe to an epic, multi-shaped, from Africa and behind.

Thus, in 2021, Foglia went to Italy to find butterflies, seizing the imagination of the San Francisco Bay Field, as he was on a plane Following scientists He believed to be what The world’s longest butterfly migration route.

However, the result of this journey, a photographic book DisorderlyThere are so many butterflies for people, says Foglia.

“At the beginning of the project, I thought only the butterflies would take photos and I follow where they go to where they go” Foglia Quite The host Nile Koksal. “But soon I realized that the longest butterfly migration depends on people now.”

In his book, Foglia is investigating the parallels between large and dangerous journeys between the borders, which have affected the migration of migration, butterflies of the painted migration and human activity.

“I think about what they teach me what they teach me when they look at the photos.” “It was a transformative journey to say at least.”

Painted lady butterflies ‘incredible to see’

Painted lady butterflies can have a nectara that causes favorable conditions and multiplying the hot weather, to have a nectar to enjoy and reproduce warm weather – the head of the book, Constant blossom.

They travel between Canada and Central America in North America. In Asia, they pass through the Himalayas. They make almost anything in Europe 14,000-kilometer departure between Scandanavia and Sahara AfricaSwitch to both the desert and the ocean, on a journey between eight and 10 generations.

“Painted lady butterflies, how much they migrated and this are really great populations,” There are really a large population, “said the doctoral researcher in Ottawa University, who read European-African migration, Foglia.

“They have these secretion periods and make the news, because there are so many butterflies passing through a city and are really incredible.”

The species have made once A 4,200-kilometer transatlantic journey along the ocean From Western Africa to French Guiana in South America, it probably explodes one of the few places where the wind currents were flown by wind currents.

Was part of Reich International team that will map this trip Analyzing the wind samples, eliminating the DNA of pollen grains, analyzing the chemical signatures of the attopic compositions or chemical signatures and wings.

“Butterfly, it is very incredible that he can survive this trip.” “It realized that he had five to eight days flying over the open ocean.”

Looking for butterflies and finding human stories

This sustainability, fogia, painted lady, butterflies and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places and places were amazed by the depth of the painted lady.

“I’m not looking for butterflies. I’m looking for what the butterflies are looking for,” he said. “So I would first look for flowers.”

But do not think of climate change and the wild habitats, and wild flowers are always what time and where it will happen.

“When drought and other weather conditions become unexpected, sometimes it was difficult to find them along the route where the migration has traveled for millions of years.”

But butterflies adapted. Therefore, Foglia surprises conversations, often in the parks and other places where there are parks and gardens and people.

“People like butterflies,” he said. “And when they learned that the butterflies traveled outside to reach the world were meaningful, and then it was meaningful to consider themselves in the boundaries.”

Switch borders

While photographing the butterflies in the Rome’s ruins of North Jordan, Foglia met with the Palestinian and the Syrian refugee group.

“I saw flourishing flowers between the stones of the Rome and thought the butterflies flew to these flowers before the Roman Empire before the Roman Empire.”

“And in this place, policies and strength and history are stuck with me.”

His journey eventually took him to Tunisia on the coastline of the northern end of Africa.

“I saw butterflies in these beautiful purple flowers between the trunks of the trees burned in a wildfire,” he said. “And butterflies will drink nectar from this purple flowers and fly throughout the Mediterranean.”

Butterflies make the Mediterranean Sea so free The way to the most deadly human migration in the world. More than 28,000 people have been traveling since 2014 have been killed, According to an international migration organizationincluding 2,452 last year.

While in Tunisia, a group of teenages held in Foglia and the afternoon Looking for butterflies with him. He drew young people as a background with the Mediterranean.

Later, one of the boys, on the way to the butterflies, left his journey along the deadly route.

“He called on WhatsApp several months later, saying that they wanted to Italy and help, as well as the butterflies were in a safe way,” said Foglia.

“This has changed the project for me. I felt like I had to intervene in the photographs of people moving … Photographs of butterflies moving in the sea. “

Pictures Constant bloom astill again On the screen in Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in New York.

Meanwhile, Foglia forced his time to move the time to follow butterflies along the borders. Now forgiveness for refugee transfer organizations and forgives their photos to use their propaganda.

“If I talked to the grandson, I can say that many people and countries areolated themselves and areolating the borders and say that I have a project at a point in isolating the military,” Foglia said.

“The lessons, which are in the countries and the continents, were the lessons, but also related to the borders of nature. We all share a responsibility to take care of nature and each other.”