amateur category
Q'Eros: the last Incas (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Andes, Perù. Q’eros people lives in remote villages located at an altitude of up to 4.500/5.000 mt above the sea level, and they are known as the last living direct descendants of the Incas. They are highly spiritual, worshipping Pachamama (Mother Earth) and los Apus (mountain spirits) above all. Their main source of sustenance consists of potatoes, and raise alpaca, but due to the climate changes that has altered the cycle of the seasons, surviving has become harder than ever since crops are subject to violent storms just as to great drought. And nowadays, their life is harder than ever.
AUTHOR
I am Ilaria Miani, an amateur photographer.
I don't remember the first time I held a camera in my hands, but I most definitely remember the two key moments when I experienced the magic of photography. The first time was in my brother's dark room, and I was really just a child, and then later, as a teenager, when my father took me to a National Geographic photo exhibition in Rome. After that, I had no choice, photography has definitely become my world. From that moment on I've had the opportunity to live very different experiences, and over the years I've tested myself, trying to find my personal feeling, my own sense of style in my photography.
Picture by picture one by one I have acquired an awareness of how an image can be important because it has the power to provide documentary evidence of our lives, an instrument to inspect our common humanity. Much more powerful because each frame is a human being squared: in each image there is not just what I see, but how I see it with all my emotions, background, feeling, happiness, sadness, culture, knowledge, experiences, lack of experiences. This is why photography is unique.
I don't remember the first time I held a camera in my hands, but I most definitely remember the two key moments when I experienced the magic of photography. The first time was in my brother's dark room, and I was really just a child, and then later, as a teenager, when my father took me to a National Geographic photo exhibition in Rome. After that, I had no choice, photography has definitely become my world. From that moment on I've had the opportunity to live very different experiences, and over the years I've tested myself, trying to find my personal feeling, my own sense of style in my photography.
Picture by picture one by one I have acquired an awareness of how an image can be important because it has the power to provide documentary evidence of our lives, an instrument to inspect our common humanity. Much more powerful because each frame is a human being squared: in each image there is not just what I see, but how I see it with all my emotions, background, feeling, happiness, sadness, culture, knowledge, experiences, lack of experiences. This is why photography is unique.
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