ONE WAY TICKET TO HELL
Latin America is one of the parts in the world most affected by the scourge of human trafficking for purposes of sexual exploitation.A phenomenon that sadly involves about24million people in the world,mostly women and children forced into prostitution,traded as sex slaves,raped,abused and often killed.In Argentina a law against human trafficking was created in2008.40%of victims in Argentina come from Paraguay.The main reason is the poverty of many families who have numerous children and no resources to survive.The victims pass by land or by river most of the time illegally and then along the streets are sorted in the big cities or in the tourist places.Others are sent toSpain,Chile or Brazil,victims of the same traffic.Once inside this system,the victims are forced to keep sexual relations with even 30 men per day,beaten,drugged,tortured and live as jailed without a chance to escape.
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.
