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Karl Mancini

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Karl Mancini

AMORES PERROS

In Buenos Aires the dirty waters of Riachuelo delimit borders and people who have their houses in its proximity live in alarming conditions.
On one side there's Buenos aires on the other the Province.One of the suburbs on the river is called Isla Maciel.
Amores Perros is a story of love and pain,violence,street,drugs,a struggle for survive.
It's the story of some adolescents.Their stories are the stories of many Argentinean boys and girls who grow up on the streets.Wrath,pain,impotence,misery not only economic are their daily lives.Everyone has inherited this situation created by many factors:a family that doen't exist,violent,addicted or alcoholic parents,an absent government that ignores suburbs,a police often corrupted and accomplice who comes to terms with the narcos.
Boys and girls with no chances.They love carnally,giving each other support and,at the same time,fighting like dogs.

Karl Mancini

Karl Mancini is an Italian documentary photographer based out of Rome and Buenos Aires.He worked in more than90countries following socio-historical and political events focusing on issues such as gender violence, war aftermaths, environment, human rights.His longterm work 'Vivir para contarlo/Live to tell' has been awarded at the Sony WorldPhotoAward,Luis Valtueña Humanitarian PhotoAward,Days Japan International Photojournalism Award,Photon Award,Prix Visa del ANI and selected among the finalists of the Alexia Foundation Grant and Leica Oscar Barnack Award.In 2022 and in 2023 he was grantee from the Pulitzer Center for the work "In the name of wellness" on the relation between superfood crops and the Latin American neocolonialism and his research on the effects of climate change on people and the planet.His works have been exhibited worldwide and have been featured in important magazines such as Newsweek,Stern,Der Spiegel, National Geographic,Vanity Fair,CNN,GEO,El pais,Die Zeit.