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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Demonstrate the cruelty of Argentinian life through photography. (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by AlexisMals@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello, I am a 23-year-old self-taught photographer, I seek through street photography, and photojournalism to show the world the cruelty of Argentine life, subjected to a dictatorship disguised as "good people". I want my photographs to reach people from other countries so that they can see that Argentina is not the World Cup, it is hunger, anger, ignorance, corruption, insecurity and death. I'm not a great photographer yet, but from my place I'd like you to give me advice and opinions for this project which I've been working on for months, in order to leave a record of the irregularities of this horrible government, which censors and even imprisons artists, journalists and opposition influencers. Sadly, they may be re-elected through electoral fraud. I apologize for my poor English. I also apologize for this post, I don't know if it will be the right place for this, honestly, I didn't know it was like that.

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[–] yugiyo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It's an interesting subject, I don't know if it's much different to when I was there five or so years ago. It's probably pretty easy to go around Buenos Aires and snap photos of extreme poverty (and it's antecedents) juxtaposed on colonial (and modern) excess. I'd say if you wanted to do a great job, you'd need to take advantage of the diversity. Go into the jungle, the mountains, the desert, and capture how people (including Indigenous peoples) are living there.