honorable mention
Luciana Mende argentina
title
Not Vegetarian
Hunting it’s a tradition and a heritage that has been passed down from generation to generation. In Spain, parents proudly pass on their knowledge to their children, while they witness and even participate in the whole process of hunting, skinning and butchering a deer.
Every year debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters argument that hunting may be a good thing for the environment: it may be necessary to preserve the health or integrity of an ecosystem by controlling animal populations.
Critics of the practise respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to carry out. They argue that hunting is immoral because it requires intentionally inflicting harm on innocent creatures.
Animal ethics and environmental ethics sometimes clash.
Does it matter whether hunters use bullets, arrows or snares?
Is preserving a cultural tradition enough to justify hunting?
Is it possible to oppose hunting while still eating farm-raised meat?
Is it ok to pay someone else to kill, clean and package their meat for our table?
All these questions keep crossing my mind as I am editing and arranging the photos I took.
Questions I still can not answer.
When she is not traveling photographing different cultures and traditions, she is working with kids and families at her studio or locations.
After getting her degree in business in Argentina, she left the country and worked for +10 years in the media industry, as a marketing director for TV companies (Televisa and TV Azteca) and different entertainment magazines (Editorial Premiere), where she was in constant contact with photographers, producers and film makers. Being surrounded by the work of other photographers and creative minds, inspired and compelled her to go and create her own work.
As a documentary photographer her work is try to expose social issues that are usually ignored or need attention, not as a judge, but mainly as a facilitator, trying to expose the story honestly and with empathy.
As a portrait photographer, she loves capturing emotions while observing subjects in their natural inviroment.
Luciana studied Portraiture photography at Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London.
She also studied analog and black and white photography at AAVI Academia de Artes Visuales in Mexico City.
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entry description
Is it hunting ethical?Hunting it’s a tradition and a heritage that has been passed down from generation to generation. In Spain, parents proudly pass on their knowledge to their children, while they witness and even participate in the whole process of hunting, skinning and butchering a deer.
Every year debates arise over the morality of hunting. Hunters argument that hunting may be a good thing for the environment: it may be necessary to preserve the health or integrity of an ecosystem by controlling animal populations.
Critics of the practise respond that hunting is a cruel and useless act that one should be ashamed to carry out. They argue that hunting is immoral because it requires intentionally inflicting harm on innocent creatures.
Animal ethics and environmental ethics sometimes clash.
Does it matter whether hunters use bullets, arrows or snares?
Is preserving a cultural tradition enough to justify hunting?
Is it possible to oppose hunting while still eating farm-raised meat?
Is it ok to pay someone else to kill, clean and package their meat for our table?
All these questions keep crossing my mind as I am editing and arranging the photos I took.
Questions I still can not answer.
about the photographer
Luciana is a social, documentary and portraiture Argentine photographer, based in Lisbon and London.When she is not traveling photographing different cultures and traditions, she is working with kids and families at her studio or locations.
After getting her degree in business in Argentina, she left the country and worked for +10 years in the media industry, as a marketing director for TV companies (Televisa and TV Azteca) and different entertainment magazines (Editorial Premiere), where she was in constant contact with photographers, producers and film makers. Being surrounded by the work of other photographers and creative minds, inspired and compelled her to go and create her own work.
As a documentary photographer her work is try to expose social issues that are usually ignored or need attention, not as a judge, but mainly as a facilitator, trying to expose the story honestly and with empathy.
As a portrait photographer, she loves capturing emotions while observing subjects in their natural inviroment.
Luciana studied Portraiture photography at Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London.
She also studied analog and black and white photography at AAVI Academia de Artes Visuales in Mexico City.
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