Being born in a refugee camp

• Prize
  Silver in Editorial/General News
• Photographer
  Eduardo Lopez Moreno
• Socials
• Website
  https://eduardolopezmorenophoto.com

This project seeks to give voice and presence to people who are often spectral identities who live without dialogue, without answers to their questions, and without a clear future. Their realities are not ephemeral, but only detached from our lives. The refugee camps contain diverse stories that were born in different countries and contexts and intersect in the common areas of these places: markets, primary school and streets; stories that in their plurality create a certain connection, a new sense. The Refugee Camps in the lands of nobody subsist with actions that are untiringly repeated, creating a constant that we do not perceive. These Camps have populations of the size of intermediate cities of the world. Pictures of people that are forced to look for spaces in other paths and light in other ways and by doing so leave behind other paths and other dreams. This is a documentary visual study of the refugee camps that are home today of more than 67 m. forcibly displaced people worldwide. The images are a journey into the interior of the refugees’ space and life. It is an attempt to build a story without affection. The images aim to reunite us with the common man, using a simple visual grammar that reveals the value of the everyday hidden life. I want to present images that are the time of the people and also the people in their time – a complicated time for refugees. This is a testimony without performance, as a visual archive of uses and customs, and ways of being and living. Photos that make visible people, things and moments that are almost trivial and insignificant acts, but to which a new meaning is provided. Images such as the ones that I submit have a random component, yet they contain artistic intentions and the search for the day-to-day aesthetics. I want to do a visual reconfiguration of these camps and turn it into something more than a repertoire. As part of this project, I plan to travel to various Refugee Camps to take pictures that are sensitive to the context, but are also the context themselves.

• Biography
  I am an architect, with a master in sociology and PhD in urban geography. I studied photography nearly 40 years ago. I am preparing a book of photography entitled “Streets of the World and Their People” with short narratives accompanying the photos. I am a social photographer. ( I like to travel and meet the world with its streets and its people, but the part that responds to my interest, my vision and philosophy of life. These images are a look at someone's world, a journey into their space and their life; an attempt to build a a story without affection, but part of a social commitment.
• Awards
  17 honorable mentions, International Photography Awards 2016. 1 2017 in the One Shoot: Climate Change Competition. Director’s Award 2017, Cartier-Bresson Passporte Prize in Street Photography, 6 photo nominations (2017) First place in the International Photography Awards 2017, USA, Non-Professional Event: Social Cause. Bronze medal in the Paris Photo Prize (Px3) 2017 for the Press- Featured Story “Collective Pain”. First Place in the PHOTO+, PDN Faces Photography Contest 2017, New York. 6 honorable mentions in the Monochrome Photography Awards 2017, Category people. First prize, Smart Arts category of Digital Camera's Photographer of the Year competition 2017 (mobile). Second place, Black and White Photographer of the Year competition 2018, Black and White Magazine and Fujifilm. Black Box Gallery, Black and White 2018 Competition, winner photo. Early Entry winner 2017, PDN, Rangefinder, WPPI, One Life International photography competition. Aline Smithson Juror’s Selection for the ONE 2017 Call, New York Center for Photographic Art. Third place, Digital Camera Photographer of the Year 2018, Character Study. Sony World Photography Awards (2018), ‘Commended’ photo on Portraiture Category. Silver Medal, Editorial, General News, Tokyo International Photo Awards (2017). ‘Winner Photo Mark of Excellence’, Black and White ‘I Shot It’ Leica Competition. Honorable Mention, Mono-Kromatic competition, Minnesota, 2018, USA Third Place People, International Photography and Arts Community, Zebra Black and White Competition First place ‘35 Awards – 100 Best Photos of the Year 2017 and 3 place best photohtapher Royal Photography Society, short-listed, International Photography Exhibition, 2018 Gold in Editorial-Conflict / Bronze in Editorial-Photo Essay / Silver in People-Children / 1st place winner in Editorial. Moscow International Photo Awards 3rd Place, Event – Social Cause, International Photo Awards (IPA), curated by Catherine Edelman