In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time - Accidental Victim of Drug Gangs

• Photographer
  Eduardo Lopez Moreno
• Agency / Studio
  Social Photographer
• Prize
  Photographer of the Year
• Website
  https://eduardolopezmorenophoto.com/

A man like anyone else, good, drunkard, according to his wife, was sitting on a bench in the main square of his town in the wrong place at the wrong time, when two rival drug gangs confronted each other, taking by accident his life. This happened in a remote rural area in the central part of Mexico, Jalisco State. A place where traditions from a century ago are preserved, as it is the case with this burial documented by several pictures throughout the process in the family home of the deceased. Traditions in the most remote areas refuse to disappear altogether, undergoing minor changes.

• Biography
  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
• Awards
  ? 17 Honorable mentions, International Photography Awards (2016), USA ? 1 honorable mention, One Shoot: Climate Change Competition (2017). ? Director’s Award 2017, Cartier-Bresson Passporte Prize, Street Photography ? First place, International Photography Awards (2017), Social Cause. ? Bronze medal, Paris Photo Prize Px3 (2017), Press-Featured Story “Collective Pain”. ? First Place, PHOTO+, PDN Faces Photography Contest (2017), New York ? 6 honorable mentions, Monochrome Photography Awards (2017) ? First prize, Smart Arts category, Digital Camera’s Photographer of the Year competition (2017) ? Second place, Black and White Photographer of the Year competition (2018), Fujifilm ? Winner photo, Black Box Gallery, Black and White Competition (2018), USA. ? First place, early Entry winner, PDN, Rangefinder, WPPI, One Life International photography competition (2017) ? Aline Smithson Juror’s Selection, New York Center for Photographic Art, ONE Call (2017) ? Third place, Digital Camera Photographer of the Year (2018), Character Study ? Sony World Photography Awards (2018), ‘Commended’ photo on Portraiture ? Silver Medal, Editorial, General News, Tokyo International Photo Awards (2017) ? ‘Winner Photo Mark of Excellence’, Black and White, ‘I Shot It’ Leica Competition (2018) ? Honorable Mention, Mono-Kromatic competition, Minnesota (2018), USA ? Third Place, International Photography and Arts Community People and Animals, Zebra Black and White Competition ? Winner 2017, ‘35 Awards – 100 Best Photos of the Year (2017), Black and White category, Moscow ? Third place black and white, Best 100 Photographers of the Year (2017), Moscow ? Royal Photography Society, short-listed, International Photography Exhibition, London. ? Gold in Editorial - Conflict and 1st place winner in Editorial. Moscow International Photo Awards (MIFA) ? 3rd Place, Event – Social Cause, International Photo Awards (IPA), curated by Catherine Edelman. ? Top 20 finalists, FOCUS Photo, l.a. Summer edition