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In Argentina femicide,the killing of women,is a new category of crime recorded in the CriminalCode in2012and it’s punished by life imprisonment.Despite the tightening of legislation,murders of women are increasing in the country.Currently,according to statistics,a woman is killed every thirty hours.The problem is particularly serious in many Villas of the cities,slums where people live in poor condition,criminality is very high and the youngster are in danger.Often young girls leave the familyHome in which they suffer domestic violence for a love affair with people belonging to gangs who introduce them to the world of the drug or they become victims of the human traffic,kidnapped and forced to prostitution.Frequently girls between13and16get pregnant.Often police doesn’t take the reports,corruption is very common and women suffer domestic and psychological violence for years
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.
