TITLE: The Emptying of the Andes

There is a very quiet and subtle migration taking place in Peru. It is a phenomenon of “rural-urban migration” that has continued incessantly for years and is emptying the Andes of people that leaving their lands under the illusion of a better future in the big city (Lima, Arequipa, Chimbote). Many young people have escaped from peasant life, only to end up in the favelas of this city, with no light, no gas, nor running water. This migratory movement, which is emptying the Andes of a population that will end up in the slums is referred to as an "invasion", because of the unstoppable number of arrivals.

This photographic project follows the stories both of those who remain in the Sierra and of those who left the mountains for the big city and found themselves passing from an imagined dream into a real nightmare; in an attempt to give a voice, to a little-known story that in the next few years will empty the mountains of their own people and native culture, filling the cities with new poverty and crime.

AUTHOR: Emiliano Pinnizzotto (Italy)

Born in 1983, begins to take my first photographs from the earliest memories. Around the age of 18 i directs my photographic passion to Social Reportage, and begins, when it is possible, to travel around the world.
I'm specialized in social portraits, taken in a natural luminosity, with the exclusive use of light available, never constructing or altering the story or image.
I have various publications on magazines and on photographic books, and show my photos in numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, the last important: India - Unusual Visions, in Museo Nazionale Delle Civiltà "L.Pigorini" of Rome in May 2017.
portfolio visible on www.emilianopinnizzotto.com