Antonio Aragon Renuncio
Happiness (Single)
DESCRIPTION
A group of happy children playing with tires outside our NGO medical consultation full of illness (Takpamba, Togo, West Africa). It was a very small settlement. During the rainy season that becomes it farther if that is possible by floods that multiply the diseases in those patients who had been arrived to the improvised medical station under the shade of a large mango tree. By mid-afternoon, after spending all the day coexisting with illnesses, I decided to go out and breathe some fresh air trying to escape from suffering that we had been watching all day in the faces of that sick people.
And there it was. A group of children. The sons, nephews and grandchildren of our patients... playing happily. Running behind those old motorcycle wheels in that red dirty track full of dust. Smiles and more smiles. Noisy joy. Pure happiness...
There are times when the line between suffering and happiness is so small and fuzzy that scares...
AUTHOR
“I´ve always loved photography… and tell stories”
Since the mid-90s involved with photography: Founds/Chairs “Nostromo” Photographers Association (Spain). University Photography Professor (+15 years): UC (Spain), UAM, UCA and URACCAN (Nicaragua)… Organizes/Directs I Photography Festival of Santander. Writes about photography in different publications. Publisher Xplorer Magazine (Nicaragua). Free-lance photographer for several International News Agencies. General Manager Xtreme PhotoWS (Burkina Faso). Publish reportages in international media. Founder/President OASIS NGO. +80 exhibitions all over the world. Many awards: Xativa´s International Photography Contest, Siena International Photo Awards, Moscow International Foto Awards, Rivne Photo Arts Cup, Odessa/Batumi Photo Days, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Direct Look, Photography Grant, HIPA, Indian Photo Festival, Photo Nikon Pro, III Documentary Photography Days, POYLatam, UNESCO, Felix Schoeller, II Photojournalism Biennial, CFC Medal, GEA Photowords, REVELA, FIAP & CEF Medal, Latin-American Documentary Photo Award…
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