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Gold 2026 Editorial / Photo Essay

Don Simon

  • Photographer
    Simone Francescangeli
  • Prize
    Gold in Editorial / Photo Essay

For several months, I followed the stories of Don Simon, a miners. I saw him lefted alone, even from his son. Don Simon lost his wife shortly after his tragedy. Life stopped the day she died trying to survive as a miner. Between life and death. He has been entering the belly of mother earth every day since he was 5. The tear. His eyes couldn't open. Stone chips all over. His face looks like a continuous explosion. "I lost everything. A flash, the same glare that wanted to take away my eyes, my face. My wife was my life." This is part of the story of a man trying to survive even himself.

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