TITLE: Trans and Prostitutes - A Day that ends badly

Injustice takes different forms and names, but it gets crueler with the transgender. Multiple stories of sexual abuse, discrimination and violence are at the origin of their lives. As they attempt to affirm an identity, offenses, bad glances and different forms of harassment multiply.

Every day is a difficult journey for them. Family rejection, lack of education and opportunities, poverty and marginalization push them to become sex workers, living very vulnerable situations. Trans put on makeup and dress to reaffirm their identity, not to hide it. Clients tolerate them, but with some form of harassment and humiliation. They occupy the bar with female sex workers to protect each other and advance common interest. However, rarely they share the same table, a drink or even less a client, struggling in their own corner for business and acceptance.

As they walk in the street, offering their services, Trans are mobile billboards of something difficult to understand and even less to accept. They selected distant or marginal areas when operating in small cities looking for some form of discreet attention.

Suddenly the police came. Non written laws and norms criminalize them. Trans and prostitutes are an inexplicable threat to society and the values of conservative groups. They are looked up without a clear cause any their rights are violated again. The shadows of the prison bars are drawn on their faces and the walls, as if they were inexorable marked.

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