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15 Fotógrafo Latinoamericano del Año All Galleries

Tomás Munita, Mención, 2011

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  • A guano worker carries a sack of feathers and waste to throw it away into the sea, walking over the exposed rock after the guano that covered it was collected. The guano, bird dung used as an organic fertilizer has been collected for 150 years from the islands in the coast off Peru. Now, with bird´s population declining from 60 millions to 4 millions the collection of guano is coming to an end. Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • A house at the abandoned miner town Oficina Salitrera Pedro de Valdivia. Atacama desert, Chile. August 2010. The entire desert is littered of abandoned mining towns, a reminder of the ephemeral of "gold" rushes and the perpetual consequences of our acts.
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  • Worker´s building owned by the Chinese company  Shougang Hierro Peru, abandoned after job cuts years ago, in San Juan de Marcona, Peru. From 3500 workers in the 80s, less than 2000 opertate in the mines today. Only few families still live in this area of the city, the windows are walled up to avoid homeless families to move in. October 2009.
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  • Youth play soccer in La Oroya next to the American-owned smelter Doe Run Peru. This photo was taken in April 10, 2009, when production was almost completelly suspended due to a financial crisis in the company, now it is still closed. The company claims that it was not able to carry out its environmental program, a violation of its agreement with the goverment arging economic reasons, in the meantime it was operating in defiant of enviromental regulations, in a city where many children have tested for high lead levels in their blood due to smelter pollution.
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  • A puppet hangs as a warning for thieves that they will be lynched and burnt if caught by neighbors, in El Alto, overlooking La Paz city, Bolivia. July, 18, 2010. With crime out of control neighbors in El Alto had decided to protect from thieves by themselves in what they call Justicia Comunitaria (community justice). Puppets are hanged around the city in organized neirghborhoods with signs that read "caught thieves will be lynched and burnt alive", and so they do.  Every month mobs attack suspects and burn them alive immediately. In many cases innocent are killed by an uncontrolable mob. Amazingly there havent been any trial against these murder.
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  • Loa River, Atacama desert, Chile. November 2009. The Loa River goes through the core of Atacama Desert. For thousand year it was inhabited by Atacameños indigenous culture, but since the starting of mining operations the struggle for water began. Water is captured from the river heads, lakes have been dried up, highly toxic pollution from mining has killed life in a big portion of the river resulting in entire communities leaving their ancestral farming and grassing lands, abandoning what used to be an oasis of life in the driest desert on Earth.
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  • Clemencia Aymane, 79, one of the last shepherd of Alto Loa takes her flock back home at the end of the day next to the shrunken Loa River in Taira, Atacama desert, Chile. August 2010.
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  • The remains of Buenaventur mining town in the higlands near the border with Bolivia, and Aucanquilcha volcano in the background. All the Atacama desert is littered with abandoned mining towns. November 2009.
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  • The copper smelter of the state-run Chuquicamata, one of the biggest copper mines in the world. Atacama desert, Chile. April 2010.
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  • Located in Chile's Atacama Desert, the tiny town of Quillagua is considered to be the driest town on Earth. Although the area hasn't experienced rainfall in some 40 years, it was once considered an oasis as a result of the flow from the Loa River, which propped up the area's agricultural production. The effect of farmers selling their water rights to the mining industry, coupled with chemical pollution of the river, has largely destroyed the area. Now the area is nothing more than a barren land with barely 100 inhabitants, where water has to be brought by trucks from a distant city. Chile. January 2009.
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  • Alejandro Sanchez, 76, looks for his sheeps and goats through the abandoned farming lands of Quillagua. He is the last one to rise livestock in this almost ghost town. He used to be a farmer working for landowners, but the landowners sold their water rights to mining companies and left the town, leaving behind people like Mr. Sanchez that had nowhere to live, no water to farm and no job. The animals can only be fed with the fruit of the Algarrobo and Tamarugo trees, they had deep roots so they still survive the drought. But the water they drink from the river is dangerously polluted and doesnt carry water all along the year as it used to do. Atacama desert, Chile. April 2010.
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  • A dead vicuña lays next to a source of water fresh water next to Carcote salt lake. Atacama desert, Chile. Since the drying up of rivers and salt lakes the number of Vicuñas and other wild animals from the highlands has been reduced dramatically in the last 60 years. November 2009.
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  • Celebration during San Miguel Arcangel, Sanit Patron of Quillagua.  Located in Chile's Atacama Desert, the tiny town of Quillagua is considered to be the driest town on Earth. Although the area hasn't experienced rainfall in some 40 years, it was once considered an oasis as a result of the flow from the Loa River, which propped up the area's agricultural production. The effect of farmers selling their water rights to the mining industry, coupled with chemical pollution of the river, has largely destroyed the area. Now the area is nothing more than a barren land with barely 100 inhabitants. Chile, September 2009. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Farmers from Toconce, a village that has partly sold their water, pray before an offering to Pachamama (mother earth) during the yearly "canals cleansing" festival, where men shovel the mud from canals that bring the water to their farms. But these days the work is mostly symbolic, since due to scarcity of water and the improvement of the canals there is almost no mud to shovel. But the festival is one of the few instances when the villagers meet again to revive their tradition, most of them have moved to live in the cities. Atacama desert, Chile. October 2009.
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  • Villagers play music during mass in Chiu Chiu, the oldest church in Chile, during the Patron Saint celebration, in which the saint is taken to the fields to make an offering to Pachamama before the sowing season. Chiu Chiu, Atacama desert, Chile.
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  • An old couple take a brak during the procession of Santa Cecilia in Caspana, Atacama desert, Chile. November 2009.
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  • Ana Anza, 65, farms garlic in Caspana, an oasis in Atacama Desert, northern Chile, January 2009. Caspana is one of the very few places in the desert where villagers - descendants of the Atacameños indigenous group - protected their rights to clean unpolluted waters of Caspana river (a tributary of Loa river) for their agriculture against the cities and mining companies on their quest for water.
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  • A farm in Caspana, an oasis in Atacama Desert, northern Chile, January 2009. Caspana is one of the very few places in the desert where villagers - descendants of the Atacameños indigenous group - protected their rights to clean unpolluted waters of Caspana river (a tributary of Loa river) for their agriculture against the cities and mining companies on their quest for water.
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  • Saturnina Ramos, 76, visits Ojos de San Pedro, a lagoon where she used to live with her community until the lake was dried up by Chuquicamata, a mining company in the 60s. Atacama desert, Chile. August 2010.
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  • A cementery of abandoned mining towns in Atacama desert, Chile. June 2010. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Sea birds, mostly Piqueros (Peruvian Booby) flying over Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.  The guano, bird dung used as an organic fertilizer has been collected for 150 years from the islands in the coast off Peru. Now, with bird´s population declining from 60 millions to 4 millions the collection of guano is coming to an end.
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008.
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  • Domingo Leon, 63, a Quechua from the higlands in Yungay collects guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. They is using a brush and a "rasqueta", brushing the hill until the solid rock is exposed. The daily task is to collect around 35 sacks of 50kg.
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  • A worker carries a sack of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Porters wait for a sack of guano to carry, Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, May 2008. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day. Photo/Tomas Munita
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  • Sacks of raw guano are piled in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • A worker carries a sack of guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The daily task for porters is to carry around 125 sacks of 50kg an average distance of 50mt per worker, so each porter carries 6.25 tons a day.
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  • Workers relax in the afternoon at their dormitory in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Laborers play "golpeado" betting the biscuits they get from their company at their dormitories in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • Sacks of guano are loaded into ships from a "cabria" in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009.
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  • A neighbor points to a residential area completely devastated by the tsunami in Pelluhue, March 2, 2010. The February 27 8.8-magnitude quake that hit Chile was so strong it triggered a Pacific-wide tsunami that affected 200 kilometers of coastline, at places sweeping 2,000 meters inland. It killed more than 400 people.
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  • A woman cries as she visits an area completely devastated by the tsunami in Pelluhue, Chile, March 2, 2010.
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  • An earthquake survivor inspects the remains of his house that resulted completely destroyed after the earthquake in Constitucion, Chile. Feb 28, 2010.
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  • A virgin found among the debris left by a tsunami in Pelluhue, Chile. March 2, 2010.
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  • Dennise Pinochet, 24, cries in front of her destroyed house and completely devastated neighborhood. She was crying out "we have to leave this doomed town" Constitucion. Chile. March 01, 2010.
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  • Juana Jara, 52, who was hospitalized days before the earthquake sits outside the hospital after it was evacuated for security reasons because the building was severly damaged after the earthquake, Talca, Chile Feb 28, 2010.
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  • A car that was pushed several hundred meter up the river by the tsunami in Pelluhue, , ChileMarch 2, 2010.
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  • A man walks past the main church destroyed by the earthquake in Constitucion, Chile, Feb 28, 2010.
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  • Destruction by the tsunami in Talcahuano, Chile, March 5, 2010.
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  • An old man walks in the shore of a fishermen village near Maputo, Mozambique, August 2009. HIV/AIDS is having a huge detrimental impact on the economies of Africa. Both the production and the consumption levels of economies are affected. While most East African Countries have seen modest decline or stabilization in HIV infection levels, the epidemic is still on the rise in Mozambique.
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  • A woman attends her sister who suffer AIDS in a government hospital supported by CARE International in Vilanculos, Mozambique, Aug. 2009.  Unitaid, a program financed by a new mechanism that charges a small fee to airline tickets, has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for treatments of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in poor countries. The woman on the left suffers of osseous tuberculosis.
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  • A doctor working with CARE International, checks an HIV positive woman before giving her the antiretroviral drugs in a rural hospital in Mapinhane Hospital, Inhambane province, Mozambique, Aug. 2009. There is approximately one doctor per 44.000 inhabitants.  For most Africans living with HIV, antiretroviral drugs are still not available. Unitaid, a program financed by a new mechanism that charges a small fee to airline tickets, has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for treatments of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in poor countries.
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  • A bus stop at the main road that links north and south Mozambique. August 2009. Mozambique remains a major transport corridor within the country and to neighboring countries, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Malawi. This results in a high percentage of sex workers and transient populations increasing the prevalence rates of HIV.  While most East African Countries have seen modest decline or stabilization in HIV infection levels, the epidemic is still on the rise in Mozambique. It is estimated that 81.000 mozambicans will die yearly due to AIDS, leaving 400.000 orphans.
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  • Prostitue Celia Oliveira, 24, mother of three young children, at the hotel where she works in Maputo, Mozambique, August 2009. She recently started working here, since her husband is in jail she has no other job to do to feed her family. While most East African Countries have seen modest decline or stabilization in HIV infection levels, the epidemic is still on the rise in Mozambique. The Prevalence rate is 16%, ranging from 8% in the Northern provinces to 26% in the Southern Provinces and 28% in the capital. It is estimated that 81.000 mozambicans will die yearly due to AIDS, leaving 400.000 orphans.
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  • A young man with AIDS waits to start a chemotherapy session to fight Kaposi´s Sarcoma, a cancer linked to AIDS, in a government hospital supported by CARE International in Vilanculos, Mozambique, Aug. 2009.  Unitaid, a program financed by a new mechanism that charges a small fee to airline tickets, has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for treatments of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in poor countries.
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  • Children from Mulungo rural primary school, practice a dance singing a song that says “Beware, AIDS can kill” before a presentation to other schoolmates, during an HIV prevention campaign organized by CARE,  part of a national education program. Mulungo, west of Vilanculos, Mozambique, Aug. 2009.  Knowledge about HIV and HIV prevention greatly improved in the last years among youth, however, knowledge about means of transmission is still low.
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  • Children, some of them HIV positive, receive free lunch donated by the Italian Community of Saint'Egidio near a school in a poor neighborhood in Maputo, Mozambique, Aug. 2009. The Italian ngo, which has the first center focused on prevention of mother to child HIV transmission, is also fighting malnutrition by providing food to poor children. Malnutrition is the main underlying cause contributing to the high level of child mortality.
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  • Teresa, 13, helps her aunt, Joanna, 27, to eat some food at the Vilcanculo´s Hospital which is assisted by CARE, Vilanculos, Inhambane province, Mozambique. August 2009. Teresa, took long time before realizing that she has AIDS, she came to the hospital when she couldn´t walk and talk. She is slowly recovering since she started taking antiretroviral drugs. For most Africans living with HIV, antiretroviral drugs are still not available. Unitaid, a program financed by a new mechanism that charges a small fee to airline tickets, has raised $1.2 billion over the past three years for treatments of HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in poor countries.
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  • A cemetery worker digs a tomb, below another tomb in a cemetery of Maputo, Mozambique, Aug. 2009. Life expectancy and child mortality is deteriorating quickly in Mozambique due to HIV/AIDS, instead of 50 years of life expectancy projected for 2010 it has gone down to 37years. It is estimated that 81.000 Mozambicans will die yearly due to AIDS, leaving 400.000 orphans.
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  • Children playing in the beach of Vilanculos, Mozambique, Aug. 2009.  17.000 children die in one year due to AIDS. Access to treatment is on the rise,  at the end of 2008, 9393 children were on ART treatment and 48,000 in care. But it is estimated that 81.000 mozambicans will die yearly due to AIDS, leaving 400.000 orphans. Reduction of childhood poverty is being seriously undermined across all sectors by the AIDS pandemic and the resulting weakened capacity of key actors to care for and protect children.
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