Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Editorial / Photo Essay

Th black hole

  • Photographer
    Valerios Theofanidis

Columbia Medellin A long time ago when the city was still small in his northern part flowed a small creek to the river Medellin. When the city began to extend the builders put the stream into the tube. The river Medellin is very polluted, the whole city dumps the waste into it. Because this pipe is only placed around the city with clean water the homeless turned it into public baths. When I was shooting this couple I was ashamed, due to the fact that I spied someone else's intimate life. But on the other hand, I had to shoot in order to show the lives of those poor people who are at the bottom of society, and who were forced to expose their bodies to the world.

I'm a freelance photographer.