YOUR STEPS WERE LOST WITH THE LANDSCAPE


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 Fernando Brito (né à Mexico en 1975) a reçu le prix Descubrimientos de PHE 2011 avec son portfolio Your Steps Were Lost with the Landscape (Tes pas se sont perdus dans le paisaje). Cette série, qui lui a valu la troisième place dans la catégorie « Informations » de la compétition de World Press Photo, révèle l’horrible réalité sociale à laquelle le Mexique est confronté.Les photographies dépeignent des corps reposant dans des paysages bucoliques dans l’état de Sinaloa. Brito évoque implicitement la situation de violence et de mort, transformant les corps morts en des symboles du pourrissement de la société. La série questionne la manière dont des situations conflictuelles et douloureuses peuvent être abordées par le biais de la photographie. 
Fernando Brito was awarded the PHE 2011 Descubrimientos Award for the portfolio Your Steps Were Lost with the Landscape. The series, which earned him the third place in the category of General News at the World Press Photo competition, reveals the gruesome social reality Mexico is experiencing.The photographs depict lying corpses immersed in bucolic landscapes in the state of Sinaloa. Brito obliquely addresses the situation of violence and death, turning the dead body into a symbol of social decay. The series poses questions on how conflictive and
painful situations should be confronted by photography. His work distances itself from aesthetic concerns and bluntness, focusing instead on the landscape and the unrevealed body, which creates a distance between the viewer and the scene. This dynamic brings up aspects related to the ethic and aesthetic dimensions of documentary photography and contemporary photojournalism.Fernando Brito (México, 1975) began his professional career toward the end of 2004 in the newspaper La i, in Culiacán. Currently he is Photography Editor at El Debate de Culiacán. In addition to recognition by Photo España and World Press Photo, he has received awards at the Bienal de Artes Visuales del Noroeste 2009, the Bienal Centro de la Imagen 2010, and he was recognized with the second place in the Current Affairs category by the Sony World Photography Organisation 2012. His work has been selected for the Mexican Expo Fotoperiodismo in 2010 and 2011.
photographs by FERNANDO BRITO

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