Mattia Vacca
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Mattia Vacca was born in Como in 1978, he works and lives in Como and Milan.
In 2003 he graduated with a degree in Science of Communication and a specialization in Cinema and Journalism.
He was selected for two editions (2003-2004) of the Masterclass FSS Film Studies and Documentary Filmmaking in Locarno.
He started taking pictures in 1998. Since 2006 he covers daily news events in Lombardia for Corriere della Sera. His work has been pubblished on major Italian daily newspapers.
S’ardia.
Barbagia is a large mountainous area in the central-eastern part of the Italian island Sardinia with beautiful nature and little isolated villages where people still lives respecting traditions working most of sheep-farming and breeding. One of these villages is Sedilo, where every year on July 6th a hundred of the best, most daring and brave horse riders participate in a wild and unrestrained race: S’ardia.
They don’t run for money or glory but to show their devotion to a warrior saint, Saint Constantine. Actually he is not a saint according to the Vatican Church that never approved him, but he is to Sedilo’s people, who celebrate his deeds and courage in defending the weak.
Riders races down the hill at full gallop, pounding towards the narrow entrance below the Arc of Constantine amid rifle shots and clouds of dust, the speed is crazy and a mistake can be lethal. It has been, many times, the last death occurred in 2009.
The dust filled air, harsh with the smell of gunpowder and the crowd’ s frenzy bring Sedilo and it’s devout inhabitants back to a time long gone.
Posted on: January 18th, 2011 by admin
Jorge Dan López Juárez
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Jorge Dan López Juárez – I was born in 1979 in Guerrero, southern Mexico, an area heavily influenced indigenous, and poverty, I start shooting in 1997 in 2000 to migrate to Mexico City where I studied photography courses in different institutions, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico , From 2002 to 2006 lived in Italy, where I worked for different national media, back to Mexico in late 2006, amid a political and social effervescence, since then I have worked on issues such as drug trafficking, migration, social conflicts, natural disasters I worked from 2008 to 2010 as a stringer from Reuters Agency, nominees for the Joop Swart Masterclass 2010, organized by World Press Photo Foundation in Netherlands.
Diablos, day of the death in Costa Chica, Guerrero
In Cuajinicuilapa, municipality of the region of Costa Rica, “afromestizo zone” in southern Mexico, each season dead,the devil is released in groups of 8 to 10, with their masks made of horn cow and horse hair alwais accompanied by the wife of devil boss, Minga, and the little soul, the most small davils, dancing and calling an offering in which rhythmic dance offered in churches, houses, altars with offerings that after they give, made up of fruit, sweets, money and liquor, dance of the jawbone of a donkey when scraped with a stick, many devils are immigrants working in the United States, the oldest say that the devils “have always existed and is very great to be a devil in yout town.
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Posted on: July 12th, 2010 by admin
Jan Sochor
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Jan Sochor was born in the Czech Republic but he is changing his base between South America and Europe frequently, he lived and worked in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain and the Czech Republic in the last five years. America has become a major theme for him since then. He focuses on documentary projects trying to show and tell about Latin America, its everyday life, social, political and cultural issues. His photographs and stories have appeared in numerous Czech and international magazines, newspapers and websites, including Sunday Times, National Geographic, Reuters, Burn magazine, Foto8, 100Eyes, UNESCO, Boston Review, PDN online, NACLA Report, Adbusters magazine, The Vienna Review, Czech Television, Reflex, Instinkt, Koktejl, Xantypa, MF DNES, Hospodarske noviny.
Nukak Maku: Stuck between Worlds
(San Jose del Guaviare, Colombia, 2009)
The Nukak Maku people, a nomadic indian tribe from Amazonia, were violently driven out of the jungle by the Colombian guerilla and paramilitary squads. Since the time of the first contact, more than a half of Nukak have died of the western diseases like flu. Now, roughly cut off their original tribal lifestyle in refugee camps, they stuck between worlds. They learn from the (mainly Christian) aid workers to use clothes, to listen to the radio, to beg for money despite the fact they do not understand these concepts. Although their digestion suffer, they love to eat sweets, cookies and other western food. They have hunted out all the animals around and now there is nothing left for them. Nukak can not return to the jungle, their world has already passed through an irreversible change.
Posted on: April 5th, 2010 by admin
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