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Honorable Mention BIFA 2019 Portfolio / Personal

Hunger and Thirst

  • Photographer
    Eduardo Lopez Moreno
  • Agency / Studio
    Social Photographer
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Portfolio / Personal

Hunger, food insecurity, famine, deprivation and malnutrition threaten the lives of millions of people every day both in the developed and developing world. It is estimated that one in nine persons globally today, close to one billion, are undernourished. One-sixth of Americans don’t have enough food to eat and Asia and Africa has the hungriest people on earth. This is a visual documentary of people suffering hunger and thirst in different parts of the world. Beyond numbers, the images generate disconcert and perturbation, without renouncing to aesthetics and a sense of composition.

I like to travel and encounter the world with its streets and its people, but the part that corresponds to my interest, my vision and philosophy of life. My photos are a look at someone’s world, a journey into their space and their life; an attempt to build a story without affection, as part of a social commitment. I present different visual stories that intersect in the streets and in their plurality create a certain connection; a new sense. These images can be regard, a hand, a detail or a full scene; a fixed temporality that captures movement. A piece of something that states a vaster spac