«Fortunately there is photography, a bearer of truth more than the Bible»

Already in 2015, the spread of the photo of a dead child on the beaches of Türkiye, little Alan Kurdi, a three-year-old Syrian, shocked the world. The press didn’t know what to do about it. Was it right to publish such strong photos? Not only right, but also dutiful, according to Toscani: «Newspapers don’t like to publish these photos, because they don’t sell», he tells us. «Even newspapers, after all, are produced to be sold: the economy affects everything. A few months before the Alan Kurdi case, I had been sent similar photos. Migrant children drowned, floating in the ocean. Terrible images. TO Republic I said: ”You should publish these photographs on double pages, every other day”, but they replied: ”You’re crazy””.