TITLE: In the wrong place at the wrong time - accidental victim of drug gangs

A man like anyone else, good, drunkard, according to his wife, was sitting on a bench in the main square of his town in the wrong place at the wrong time, when two rival drug gangs confronted each other, taking by accident his life.

No one was responsible, no one knew what happened. Human rights were absent in this case, as in more than 200,000 thousand people dead in Mexico in the last years. No justice was made and no explanation given.

Burials continue to differentiate alive and dead even after the demise. This happened in a remote rural area in the central part of Mexico, in the State of Jalisco. A place where traditions from a century ago are preserved, as it is the case with this burial documented by several pictures throughout the process in the family home of the deceased.

Traditions in the most remote areas refuse to disappear altogether, undergoing minor adaptations and alterations to the uses and customs of the place and the family.

Burials continue to differentiate alive and dead even after the demise. The funeral is ultimately a family representation of death with hidden superstitions and sometimes not so much.
The last meeting of the innermost family for the deceased to embark thereafter on the journey to ultimate solitude. There is a solemn respect, silence and tears and an occasional hidden and fleeting laugh.

AUTHOR: Eduardo Lopez Moreno (Kenya)

I like to travel and encounter the world with its streets and its people, but the part that corresponds to my interest, my vision and philosophy of life. My photos are a look at someone’s world, a journey into their space and their life; an attempt to build a story without affection, as part of a social commitment.

I present different visual stories that intersect in the streets and in their plurality create a certain connection; a new sense. These images can be regard, a hand, a detail or a full scene; a fixed temporality that captures movement. A piece of something that states a vaster space.

 17 Honorable mentions, International Photography Awards (2016), USA
 1 honorable mention, One Shoot: Climate Change Competition (2017).
 Director’s Award 2017, Cartier-Bresson Passporte Prize, Street Photography
 First place, International Photography Awards (2017), Social Cause.
 Bronze medal, Paris Photo Prize Px3 (2017), Press-Featured Story “Collective Pain”.
 First Place, PHOTO+, PDN Faces Photography Contest (2017), New York
 6 honorable mentions, Monochrome Photography Awards (2017)
 First prize, Smart Arts category, Digital Camera’s Photographer of the Year competition (2017)
 Second place, Black and White Photographer of the Year competition (2018), Fujifilm
 Winner photo, Black Box Gallery, Black and White Competition (2018), USA.
 First place, early Entry winner, PDN, Rangefinder, WPPI, One Life International photography competition (2017)
 Aline Smithson Juror’s Selection, New York Center for Photographic Art, ONE Call (2017)
 Third place, Digital Camera Photographer of the Year (2018), Character Study
 Sony World Photography Awards (2018), ‘Commended’ photo on Portraiture
 Silver Medal, Editorial, General News, Tokyo International Photo Awards (2017)
 ‘Winner Photo Mark of Excellence’, Black and White, ‘I Shot It’ Leica Competition (2018)
 Honorable Mention, Mono-Kromatic competition, Minnesota (2018), USA
 Third Place, International Photography and Arts Community People and Animals, Zebra Black
and White Competition
 Winner 2017, ‘35 Awards – 100 Best Photos of the Year (2017), Black and White category, Moscow
 Third place black and white, Best 100 Photographers of the Year (2017), Moscow
 Royal Photography Society, short-listed, International Photography Exhibition, London.
 Gold in Editorial - Conflict and 1st place winner in Editorial. Moscow International Photo Awards (MIFA)
 3rd Place, Event – Social Cause, International Photo Awards (IPA), curated by Catherine Edelman.
 Top 20 finalists, FOCUS Photo, l.a. Summer edition (2018), Les Rencontres de la Photography, Arles, France.
 National Geographic, Travel Photographer of the Year (2018), Galleries People
 First Place, PDN, NY and Photocrowd, London, Photojournalism in Black and White (2018)
 Honorable Mention, Neutral Density Photography Awards, Professional (2019)
 ‘Winner Photo Mark of Excellence’, City, ‘I Shot It’ Leica Competition (2018)
 2nd place winner, juror Louise Fedotov, Black and White competition, New York Center for Photographic Art (2018), USA.
 American Photography 35 Awards