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Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Photographer
Javier Arcenillas
Red Note
Gomma Photography Grant 2015 Winners

Gomma Photography Grant 2015

Red Note

Photographer

Javier Arcenillas

Red Note

14 Oct, 2022

My project aims to document the axis of uncontrolled violence in Central America and as social and political factors are feeding more and more aggressively such violence. I have been working in Central America more than 5 years documenting the transformation of their society and so fighting to introduce journalistic nonsense of the disastrous policies to end violence. I would like to continue working in new themes for reflection and more detailed profiles that could be red notes as gender violence or intolerance towards more disadvantaged groups such as homosexuals or transsexuals who undergo numerous episodes of violence and mistreatment constantly. Central America is considered one of the most violent places on earth. Every day on the streets of cities like San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa, San Salvador, Guatemala… murders, robberies and violence are every day more present. Ineffective internal politics of the area is unstable, traffic of drugs into the USA is uncontrollable and insecure neighborhoods of Maras or control of the Zetas border is the closest thing to a daily war. The report of the Organization of American States emphasizes that in a country like Honduras violent death occurs every 74 minutes exist without war. Already in 2013 was the most violent nation in the world, totaling 7,104 murders documented by police. In these places the use of youth and children to be trained as Sicarios is a regular job. They are attracted by the ease of making money that gives them respect and fear. In the process of training the young killer from the most consumed strata of society become true harbingers of death. In a country without war where violent deaths occur every hour., The social portrait of Central America is considered the most terrifying place in the world.

About the photographer

Javier Arcenillas

Photographer and Editor, he has a degree in Developmental Psychology from the Complutense University. He studied Cinema at the Madrid Film School, graduating in Cinematography and Directing. And photography with Fernando Herráez and Manuel Sonseca in the old photography schools of Alcobendas.He has been working professionally in photography since 1994, collaborating at the beginning for the newspaper Marca and local newspapers and gazettes. He was part of the staff in the second period of Diario 16 and was a member of the now defunct agency COVER. He has collaborated periodically with El País, El Mundo, La Voz de Galicia and Diario de León, as well as with magazines such as Telva, Cosmopolitan, Ser Padres or Paisajes desde el Tren among others in Spain and Time, Sunday Times, El Periódico de Guatemala, Gatopardo, CNN or L’expresso among the international ones.Since 1994 he has worked as a photographer for Alcobendas Town Council.