The butterflies chase all over the world changed the world’s view of this photographer

In the first days of the epidemic, when most people could not travel anywhere, Lucas Voglia became obsessed with butterflies that go almost everywhere.

Lady -coated butterflies, which are located in almost every continent, are among the most abundant travelers on the planet. A population, in particular, makes a multi -generational epic trip every year from Europe to Africa and return.

So in 2021, as soon as Foglia managed to ride a plane, the photographer of the San Francisco Bay area of ​​Italy set out to find the butterflies that seized his imagination, and working with Follow scientists What he thinks is The tallest way to migrate in the world in the world.

But the result of that trip, the photography book Fixed floweringVoglia says Folia is about humans as much as butterflies.

“At the beginning of the project, I thought I would just photograph butterfly and follow them wherever they went,” I told Voglia As it happens Host Nil Köksal. “But soon I realized that the longest butterfly migration now depends on people.”

In his book, Foglia explores not only how human activity affects the path of the lady’s coated migration, but also the similarities between butterfly movements, vast trips and risks that people do across the border every day in search of security and fighting.

“When I look at the pictures, I think about what they are and what they teach me,” he said. “It was a transformative journey, at the very least.”

Lady Lady Butterflies “do not believe to see”

Lady -coated butterflies migrate with changing seasons, and chasing warm weather so that it can obtain continuous supplies from nectar to address, and favorable conditions for mating and reproduction – and then the title of the book, Fixed flowering.

In North America, they travel between Canada and Central America. In Asia, they cross the Himalayas. And in Europe, they are making almost 14,000 kilometers on a round and forth journey between Scandinavia and sub -Saharan AfricaThe desert and the ocean crossed, on a journey between eight and 10 generations.

“The butterflies drawn with women are really distinct in their transmission, and that they really have these great population,” said Vogelia.

“They are going through these fascist sessions, and they will make news because there are many butterflies that pass through the city and it is really amazing to see it.”

Types even once made A 4200 km ocean trip across the ocean From West Africa to French Joyana in South America, it is likely to be detonated by wind currents to one of the few places on this planet that is not supposed to be.

The Reich was part of The international team that determined that trip By analyzing wind patterns, the DNA sequence of pollen grains they carried, analyzing theoretical structures, or chemical signatures, from their wings.

“It is amazing that the butterfly was able to survive on this trip,” she said. “We thought it had spent five to eight days to fly over the open ocean.”

Looking for butterflies, and finding human stories

This flexibility is something Folia came to admire the painful lady, where he spent nearly four years to pass 17 countries to take pictures of butterflies, people and the places with which they intersect.

“I am not looking for butterflies. I am looking for the butterflies that you are looking for,” he said. “So I will first search for flowers.”

But climate change and infringement of man in wild habitats means that wild flowers do not always open when and where they are supposed to be.

“When the drought and the other weather became unexpected, it was sometimes difficult to find it along the way they traveled for millions of years,” he said.

But butterflies adapted. Therefore, Foglia found itself in itself in gardens and gardens, and other places where people are, raising conversations.

“People love butterflies,” he said. “And when they learn that the butterflies they see abroad travel all over the world to get there, it was worthwhile to hear and get to know people, then think about themselves as linked to other places across the borders.”

border crossing

While photographing butterflies in the Roman antiquities in northern Jordan, Voglia met with a group of Palestinian and Syrian refugees who are making their own infections.

“I saw the flowers opening between the stones of these Roman antiquities and I believed that the butterflies were flying to these flowers for millions of years before the Roman Empire rose and fell.”

“The classes of politics, power and history in that place are stuck with me.”

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

“I saw butterflies on these beautiful purple flowers between the trunks of the charred trees that were burned in a fire fire,” he said. “Butterflies were drinking nectar from those purple flowers, and flying across the Mediterranean.”

The crossing of the Mediterranean butterflies is now now The most bloody human immigration path in the world. More than 28,000 people have died on the trip since 2014, According to the International Organization for MigrationIt includes 2,452 last year alone.

While they were in Tunisia, Vochlia met a group of adolescents who died in the afternoon With him looking for butterflies. He photographed young people with the Mediterranean Sea as a background.

Later, one of these boys set out on his own trip along this deadly road, following the butterfly path.

“He called me WhatsApp a few months later, and he told me that he had arrived in Italy on a boat and asked for help – he also asked if the butterflies had arrived there safely,” said Voglia.

“This is about the project for me. I felt that I had to tie the pictures of people who migrate alongside … pictures of butterflies migrate across the sea. “

Pictures from Fixed flowering aRe – Show at the Friedrix and Fraser exhibition in New York City.

Meanwhile, Vogelia says that his time was chasing butterflies across the border forced him to work. He is now volunteering for refugee resettlement organizations, and he donates images to use them in their invitation.

“If I was talking to my grandson, I might say that I have done a project in a stage of history when many people and countries were to stick to themselves and the borders were strong and striking,” said Vooglia.

“The lesson I obtained from following the butterflies drawn throughout the countries and continents was that both people and nature are linked across the border. Because we are connected, we all share the responsibility for caring for nature and each other.”