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

submitted 2 years 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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[–] rodrigofalvarez@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

For anyone who might be interested in the subject matter, Argentina is currently in electoral season, and about as horribly polarized in its domestic politics as the US.

This person's words reflect an extreme and unhinged point of view that only correlates with reality in common places in the Latin American condition: poverty, corruption. Things ubiquitous even in the United States if you care to visit places away from the large cities.

The reality is that Argentina's democracy is healthy, its media landscape is diverse (with a majority privately-owned opposition representation, as a matter of fact), and its electoral system (despite routine claims from the losing party) is internationally regarded as fair.

This is immediately apparent to anyone familiar with the US system, for example. Glaring issues in the US system like gerrymandering, unfair party primaries, inconsistent and unfair rules for ballot access, corrupt campaign finance and media access systems, an electoral college that distorts the will of the majority -- these problems are all absent in the electoral system of Argentina.

It's ok to not understand reality at the young age of 23, but my advice to OP is please -- please -- travel a little, talk to people with other perspectives more, and get out of your echo chamber. And put down that copy of Clarin immediately. :)