honorable mention
Mauro De Bettio italy
title
MALAIKA
An environment often fraught with constant and sustained danger in various forms such as fear, harassment, violence among themselves and towards others, drug taking and trafficking, sexual exploitation with a high risk of contracting STI and HIV/AIDS, starvation and poor hygienic and sanitation conditions.
Besides the lack of shelter, sanitation, and nutrition, these children, particularly in Nairobi, are substance abusers. Sniffing glue is an escape from poverty, homelessness, violence and abuse on the streets. Sniffing glue helps them to suppress their hunger, simply because glue is cheaper than food. Some children said they use glue and other drugs to heighten their senses to alert them of possible violence, facilitate sleep during the cold nights, or to numb their physical or emotional pain.
Many of the children claim that their parents are either deceased or have abandoned them. The street, then, is their only chance to earn money and search for food.
In my life I had the chance to visit wonderful places and especially to meet great people.
My purpose is, and has always been, capture the feeling of what I "touch", not just the appearance of it.
Capture the essence and express the nuances of a person in just one frame showing those subtleties
that can be hard to describe in words.
Reproducing every emotion, from happiness to sadness, from fear to excitement.
Through simply showing an images, evoke an emotion in someone else, make people stop and think.
Stop them in their tracks just with a glance at an image.
Photography is a fantastic story-telling medium.
Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.
Mauro De Bettio (born March 4, 1975) lives now in Barcelona, Spain.
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entry description
It's estimated that there are 250,000- 300,000 children living and working on the streets across Kenya with more than 60,000 of them only in Nairobi without shelter and assurance of having food every day Nairobi’s Street Children: Hope for Kenya’s future generation.An environment often fraught with constant and sustained danger in various forms such as fear, harassment, violence among themselves and towards others, drug taking and trafficking, sexual exploitation with a high risk of contracting STI and HIV/AIDS, starvation and poor hygienic and sanitation conditions.
Besides the lack of shelter, sanitation, and nutrition, these children, particularly in Nairobi, are substance abusers. Sniffing glue is an escape from poverty, homelessness, violence and abuse on the streets. Sniffing glue helps them to suppress their hunger, simply because glue is cheaper than food. Some children said they use glue and other drugs to heighten their senses to alert them of possible violence, facilitate sleep during the cold nights, or to numb their physical or emotional pain.
Many of the children claim that their parents are either deceased or have abandoned them. The street, then, is their only chance to earn money and search for food.
about the photographer
Difficult to express, but I'm quite sure photography is for me my primary way of speaking.In my life I had the chance to visit wonderful places and especially to meet great people.
My purpose is, and has always been, capture the feeling of what I "touch", not just the appearance of it.
Capture the essence and express the nuances of a person in just one frame showing those subtleties
that can be hard to describe in words.
Reproducing every emotion, from happiness to sadness, from fear to excitement.
Through simply showing an images, evoke an emotion in someone else, make people stop and think.
Stop them in their tracks just with a glance at an image.
Photography is a fantastic story-telling medium.
Just ask yourself what story you want to tell, and photography can get you there.
Mauro De Bettio (born March 4, 1975) lives now in Barcelona, Spain.
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