Be a family among mines.
Simone Francescangeli | Bolivia
Photographer: Simone Francescangeli
Exhibit Title: Be a family among mines.
Location: Bolivia
For several months, I followed the stories of various miners family. Among the Bolivian mines. Altitude and stones. Breathing is so hard, dust enters the lungs. Also imprisons thoughts. Life is a constant struggle. Every day the day. Every day everyone lose direction, every day survival blurs their vision. Children dreams of flying in the high sky. Men fall into the darkness of the earth. Sometimes the sun shines on their eyes. Women cannot work in the mines. Mother Earth is a woman. Only men can penetrate her. Women must make do with dust in their hands. Every day, hope is the only source of survival. Survival is a ferocious animal. Hope has a different light. Glances, shadows, and suspended shapes awaiting a different time.
Image 1: My hands waiting. - A young man of seventeen in the locker room waiting for the Friday exit to play football with other miners.
Image 2: The Virgin Mary. - In her arms, at her breast, surrounded by thoughts of a future.
Image 3: Future wedding. - Marriage, children, the hope of social revenge.
Image 4: Father and son. - Same sweat, same dust, same darkness.
Image 5: Hanging. - Time is as relentless as the dust of the mines. Lives hung like objects.
Image 6: Alcohol. Today and now. - The lack of a future and alcohol often cross paths in the mines. The damned need to forget.
Image 7: The distance of future. - Be a woman. Last after the last among mines. A life trying to escape. Struggle for a different life.
Image 8: The astronaut. - Dreams possible only as children.
Image 9: Children in and out. - Be a child in and out the mines. Eyes and arms towards the future.
Image 10: A city, a future. - Struggle to get out of the tunnels. The mirage of distant lights.
Simone Francescangeli lives in Italy. Attracted from different cultures and people's ways of life and their relationship with the earth and natural resources. He continues to investigate various ways to find the meaning of the word "life" and human-being. Simone continuously seeks to evolve his own way of expressing himself, deepening, developing and characterizing a personal way of telling human stories. He dedicates himself to encounters souls and their dignity. His narrative is developed with texts, photographs and multi-media products / short films. The main stories were portrayed on the roads of Ethiopia, its pilgrims, on board with artisanal fishermen's in Pacific Ocean, in Bolivian mines, over Cuban rings and many more.
Simone Francescangeli
email: simone@animainmoto.it ; animainmoto@tiscali.it
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