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Fundacion Leer and Villa 31

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Children, Fundacion Leer, villa, tagged , , , , , , , on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I was asked by Frank of Sugar & Spice to photograph as he and some of his employees volunteered with Fundación Leer in Villa 31. They took a school room with damaged walls, peeling paint, overall just depressingly ugly and transformed it into a reading corner with butterflies, snails and a large tree along [...]

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Game Faces

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Journalism, Photography, Poverty, South America, villa, tagged , , , , , , , on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Previously I’ve posted images (you can see them here) about the CuJuCa game day for children in Villa 31 behind the Retiro bus station. As I was looking over the images again today, I ran across these five photos. They jumped off the screen at me this time. I see reflected in each of these [...]

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The Girl Effect

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Journalism, News, Photography, Politics, Poverty, South America, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

“Imagine a GIRL living in POVERTY”
Now IMAGINE what can happen when you give something to her life. Here are images from one local event that is trying, through games and fun, to make a difference for just a day. Of the 20 or so social groups that participate in the CuJuCa festival, many are active [...]

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The Human element: Poverty is not a series of statistics

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Journalism, News, Photography, Poverty, South America, villa, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This post is a part of Blog Action Day 2008 on poverty.
The difference between roughly 17% and 30% is over 4.5 million people and it is the difference between what Argentina officially reports as the number of poor in the country and the general wisdom of the non-governmental economists. As often in this country, it [...]

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Gloria’s house

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Journalism, Photography, Politics, Poverty, South America, villa, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Finalmente. Finally. I thought I’d post a few photographs from Gloria’s house. Gloria Rodriguez, 44, lives in Villa 31 behind the Retiro bus station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works at a cooperative called the Comedor Los Pibes in La Boca. There she spends her day sewing or participating in marches or protests as the [...]

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Mariana’s house

Posted in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Journalism, News, Photography, South America, villa, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on September 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Some images from inside Mariana’s house. I was introduced to Mariana through her mom, Gloria, who I am following. I have not fully edited the images from Gloria’s house and really need to keep shooting her story, so I am not ready to post images. But since I was over Mariana’s house I thought I’d [...]

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