Travel nominee

What mean these charming little people with cheerful clothes and funny animals compared to the millions of euros of the gas business?

For a couple of thousands of years the Nenets have moved their reindeer across the tundra.
They found a place to live where the temperature drops to -50 ° C before anyone was interested in this part of the world before anyone knew that this part of the world existed.
But now there are those interested in the subsoil. Because there is gas in the ground, a lot of gas.
Now, the Nenets are probably at the limit of their existence as reindeer herders.
Surrounded by pipes, surrounded by the lure of modernity they are at the limit of the possibilities of existence of their identity.
They resist this clash, which seems natural, at least from the perspective of the West, with amazing dignity, with enviable pride.
At the edge of the world, in an icy universe, they insist on their right to be that they have always been: reindeer herders.

Perhaps the gas business will destroy forever those hard and kind people that for centuries have found a wonderful reason to live where we only see white, where we only feel cold.
Maybe not, then these pictures will be not part of the taxonomy of the extinguish but rather the memory of have been with a wonderful people.

Visual artist. Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, National University of La Plata. Professor at the National University of Arts, Buenos Aires.

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2012 Honorable Mention in Book
2014_Finalist in Photographer's Forum magazine's 34th Annual Spring Photography Contest
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2014 Nominee in Portrait
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015 Honorable Mention People : Culture / Honorable Mention: Deeper Perspective / Honorable Mention: Book
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Honorable Mention: Photojournalism / Story
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2015 Honorable Mention People: Travel
ONE EYELAND AWARDS 2015 Finalist Editorial _ Photo essay / Feature Story / Culture
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2015/2016 Nominee in Travel
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS THE FAMILY OF MEN 2016 Mention Old Age, Professional
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016 Mention Self Published|Photo Essay and Feature Story|Deeper Perspective, Professional
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER IF THE YEAR Mention PHOTOJOURNALISM / STORY
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2016/17 Nominee photojournalism
ND AWARDS 2016 Honorable Mention - People - Travel / Culture
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017 Honorable mention, Event: tradition and cultures / People/culture / Special: travel/tourism
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2017/2018 Nominee in Travel
TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS 2017 Honorable mention People-Culture
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2018 Honorable mention, People/culture