Emiliano Pinnizzotto
Opium (Series)
DESCRIPTION
The scourge of opium in the border villages between India and Burma where in this remote area forgotten by both governments, the consumption of opium has spread so rapidly as to make one-third of men slave of this drug. While women go to the fields to work, barefoot, in all weather conditions, men gather in a hut to smoke opium all day long.
The children are left in the same house and play while adults are smoking, the acrid smell and fumes spread all over in the hut.
Children play while adults are smoking, the acrid smell of opium and its fumes spread all over the house, especially into the rooms with no door where the kids stay.
The situation is now already dramatic and critical.
But what will happen In a few years?
Without any intervention, entire villages will be inhabited by men and boys who are completely addicted to opium.
AUTHOR
Born June 25, 1983, son of art, shows a propensity as a child and a great affinity with images and audio-visual arts, especially fascinated by photography, cinema and music. He starts taking his first photographs from the earliest memories. Around 16 years directs his photographic passion towards Reportage Social, thanks mainly to the numerous trips around the world undertaken with parents. Gradually located so their own style, in constant evolution, thanks to the chameleonic characteristic of his photographic language, mainly related to its different moods, characterized by the portrait in a social perspective, taken in natural environment, with the 'exclusive use of the available light without ever build or alter the story or 'image. Both black and white for the color applied in the digital postproduction of his photos, as "modus operandi", only the techniques used also in the darkroom. Various exhibition in international and Italian museum and gallery. Member of the Order of Journalists and for several years worked with the Graffiti Photography School and Graffiti Press Agency di Roma
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