Street Stories A photography project by Andrea Torrei

– Shot while exploring cultures and countries, Italian photographer Andrea Torrei invites us on a colourful journey, from the shores of the Ghanaian gold coast to the streets of La Habana.

Street Stories is a selection of photographs made in the last four years in different countries, a step into the immense diversity that exists between cultures and the common threads that unite them, far away from each other yet so close.

Each image captures a moment in time that best evokes and expresses the local culture within its traditions and social dynamics. Colors play a significant role adding an extra dimension but the main focus of the body of work is people and their stories.

Whether in public or in private spaces, the pictures are all candid, the pure reaction to the unpredictable unfolding of daily life. – Andrea Torrei

– Discover more of Andrea’s work here

“La libreta” the supply booklet is a system of food distribution in Cuba that grants each person an allotted amount of food. Here, a boy takes his ration of milk back home while a young adult goes to get his daily supply - Trinidad, Cuba © Andrea Torrei
Girls in their school uniform. A muslim enclave in a predominantly Orthodox country, the town was closed to outsiders for hundreds of years before the explorer Sir Richard Burton entered it only in 1855 -Harar, Ethiopia © Andrea Torrei
Proud of his breeding pigeon. There have been improvements in access to primary schools but in rural areas enrollment and/or attendance remain low. Children are expected to help families with work - Daker, Ethiopia © Andrea Torrei
Courtyards in abandoned old buildings are often the favorite playground of local children where they interact and share their rituals - La Habana, Cuba © Andrea Torrei
Fish market,Yangon, Myanmar 2018
© Andrea Torrei
Huge are the efforts of Ghana Government to support and educate the unprivileged children with special attention to girls - Cape Coast, Ghana © Andrea Torrei
A colourful room where to gather and rest in a rural area - Simiw village, Ghana © Andrea Torrei
Becoming a seamstress is a highly esteemed profession in Ghana and a woman with a sewing machine can generate her own income to be independent - Cape Coast, Ghana © Andrea Torrei
A private home. The town was built by the end of the 19th century during the construction of the railway that today connects the center of the country to Gibuti contributing to bring the country out of its centuries-old isolation from the rest of the world - Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. © Andrea Torrei
Shwedagon Pagoda is the most sacred buddhist site and the focus of religious as well as community activities - Yangon, Myanmar © Andrea Torrei
A girl playing with a tyre. Anything can become a toy and the imagination runs wild - Cape Coast, Ghana © Andrea Torrei
Women deep in thought waiting for the boat to go home late in the evening - Yangon, Myanmar © Andrea Torrei
A young man is collecting water from a well for his family. Access to potable drinking water in adequate quantities is still a challenge and despite modern technology and know-how, waterborne disease continue to have a major public health impact - Cape Coast, Ghana © Andrea Torrei
Women- run tailor shop. Many are the women-owned small enterprises in order to increase the employment opportunities for women in safe working conditions - Yangon, Myanmar © Andrea Torrei
An Oromo girl playing in an alley of the old city and a Harari woman passing by. Here, different ethnic groups (Oromo, Harari, Somali, and many more) coexist with a high degree of religious respect - Harar, Ethiopia © Andrea Torrei
A boy going to school in early morning. 368 are the alleys of the walled city and its almost five-metre-high walls were erected around the 16th century as a defensive response to the neighbouring Christian Ethiopian Empire, but today Muslims and Christians share the city in peace - Harar, Ethiopia © Andrea Torrei

Color street photo of woman in train by Tommi Viitala

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