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Award winning photographer Inge Morarh of the Magnum Foundation, Lourdes Basoli, will give a conference tomorrow in which projection display your personal view on the violence plaguing the city of Caracas or the traces of the accident at Chernobyl, in the Gates Center de Castilla.
The 2011 Greenhouse continues its journey with a lecture-screening of the Catalan photographer Basoli Lurdes (Barcelona, ​​1981), who won in 2010, Magnum Morah Inge Award Foundation, which is the recognition of the best young photojournalist of the year.
This award adds to an impressive list: Fotopress'09 grant from La Caixa Foundation (whose exposure can be seen in the currently MUBAM), scholarship Clic'08 of the Catalan Generalitat, scholarship Albarracín Photojournalism Festival 2007, Festival Scholarship Gijón Photojournalism 2005 and finalist in Descubrimientos'08 PhotoEspaña.
The author develops his work in the documentary field, and his best known story is Caracas, the branch of the sky which shows us, with its poignant black and white, the daily death in the suburbs that surround Caracas.
She describes it: "In Venezuela, the life is the price of a bullet. Caracas, the capital, is the most violent city in Latin America. Being born in one of its neighborhoods is the closest you can be born from death. Random marks the lives of young people who fail to meet twenty years. "
Basoli address different situations and emotions: life and death, fear, helplessness, anger, resignation, despair, pain, etc., Focused its work primarily on the victims, as mothers, sisters and brothers wives, sons and daughters, and the wounded.
To supplement focuses on the perpetrators (those who cause death or injury), these young children of a future broken huts, killing and sentenced to die.
They are the victims of the society in which they were born and that causes their victims.
They are in a spiral of violence are part of a war without a name.
The photographer also will present other works such as Ghosts of Chernobyl, in the footsteps of the nuclear accident suffered by the Ukrainian city, or dreams of princesses showing the celebrations of 15 years in Cuba today.
In addition, we discuss how the photojournalistic work have evolved towards a more intimate, which she explains as "The power of the camera in hand to build our world."
Thursday 26 May at the center of Murcia Castilla doors at 20:00.
Free entrance until full capacity.
Source: Agencias
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