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Gabriele Rossi italy
title
Tears and Bullets
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entry description
The violence that people experience in Honduras is similar to that experienced in war zones. In 2022, former President Hernandez was extradited to the US on charges of drug trafficking and turning the country into a "narco-state". Honduras has the second highest homicide rate in the world and the rates of sexual violence and femicide are among the highest in the world, in fact the data provided reveal that in the last 20 years, from 2002 to 2022, one woman was killed every day. In addition to the deaths caused by gunfights between gangs and with the police, this country is also fighting a war with gender-based violence that prevails, mainly due to a male-dominated and patriarchal culture. The incapacity of the authorities results in the high level of impunity, above 94% for most crimes against women and all this impunity contributes to normalize this violence. Natural families are often absent and for many kids the gang replaces this absence and this double track of ferocity and abandonment are the two sides of the same coin. People almost always become aggressive after having suffered violence themselves and often the kids who join a gang are the product of the environment in which they live and like every human being they learn to give life what they receive from it.about the photographer
I am an Italian freelance photojournalist. My work spans questions related to social justice, human rights and contemporary issues. I like to try to analyze the sociological reasons for the topics I deal with. Photography, in addition to being a tool for denunciation, is an excuse to test myself and nourish within me the desire to experience the world first hand but before all this, however, there is the awareness that this work represents a responsibility.back to gallery