VoW: Life After Coma by Luca Scabbia

Here’s a new era coming on this website (hopefully). I’ve recently been working a lot on different project, and it’s time now to revive this blog and propose a richer content. A couple of years ago, I’ve created a video-group on Vimeo called « Photojournalism & Multimedia« . Strangely enough, I created it and let it live its life until recently when I discovered that 86 members had uploaded almost 240 videos.

I immediately watched the whole content, some are very good, others not so, but there’s an energy and a will to share that I can’t be insensitive of.
So I’ve decided to feature once a week my top 3 videos from Vimeo, but specially from our « Photojournalism & Multimedia » group.

Here’s the video « Life After coma » by Luca Scabbia, according to him: « This is my first multimedia experiment from a photography assignment i shot in Italy about people in vegetative state after traumatic accident. »

For those who’d like to see the pictures, here’s a direct link to his website: http://www.lucascabbia.com/coma.html and here’s the pitch of the story:

Living beyond coma, in that border zone between semi-vegetative and vegetative state. In Italy there are about three thousand people who have suffered severe traumatic brain injuries, mostly caused by traffic accidents, who live today in this condition. The disabling outcomes are obvious, lives turned upside down, a whole new reality to rebuild. An issue of great importance to the Health and Social System in Italy, as in most industrialized countries.

In Ferrara there is a public facility, considered a center of excellence for rehabilitation from serious acquired brain injury; here begins the stories of those who faces the difficult path of awakening from a coma.A long and painful journey, which is nonetheless frequently punctuated by moments of hope, courage and dignity, equally shared by patients, their families and by the staff of psychologists, doctors and therapists. A journey combining professionalism and humanity, in the common goal of healing.

Stay tuned for more about webdoc (which is becoming to me i-doc, I’ll explain why), transmedia storytelling, interactivity and documentaries.
Cheers