Exhibition "Rivers of Hope" (Spain)
The power of the red nose. By Kim Manresa.
Through my work as a photojournalist, I have been lucky enough to travel the world and discover great wonders, but also great unhappiness in our society: child prostitution, disasters, pandemics, extreme poverty and hunger, wars (with displaced people and refugees) situations of injustice and violation of human rights.
When collecting experiences to publish this book on refugees in Kosovo, Guatemala, Iraq, Mali and Colombia, as well as Palestine and the Iraq war, three stories that remind me deeply and I have shown that children in conflict zones, even physically having lost almost everything they had, we never lost hope and, with his smile, cultivate the imagination, that makes them be more creative in order to pull forward.
In Kosovo, a group of refugees living near a nuclear power plant. They knew that elsewhere in the world there are people who place their photographs and memories to keep. They did not have cameras and paper to reveal. Using your imagination, they built a huge photo frame made of cardboard and put them inside so that he could photograph them and leave a souvenir.
In another environment, the Iraq war, a father broke into the hospital with her daughter for three years. Yalaf Yabbar was playing outside his home in a landscape in ruins when he blew an engine and lost a hand ... What is most surprising is how, a few hours later, the cries of his mother and the consternation of his father, Yalaf recovered, with a nice red nose, her smile girl.
In southern Algeria, a Sahrawi child twelve years Malainin asked a girl from the issuance of Clowns Without Borders Comediants and whether it had a caramel. "No," she said. The boy insisted: "So what are you?", Convinced that something had to have. "A smile," she said, and children, excited, "Where, where? What I want to make, "said touching cheeks with both hands, as if it could hit in the face.
On each trip, regardless of destination, I could see how everyone, young and not so small, we need to share experiences, lose the shame and get the red nose, a smile to make the therapy as "the best expression of man is the smile. "
With this work I wanted to share the experiences I have lived up and claim to never lose the smile, the smile that we all have inside. I hope that one day is well recognized as valuable heritage of mankind.
Biography
Kim Manresa (Barcelona, 1961) published his first photographs to be very young in the early seventies in various journals in his hometown district.
In 1976 he began to photograph the transition in the areas of the city and its urban and social transformation, and a year later began his first trip stories. That same year he comes to work in the studio photographer Colita and begins work on the Tele-Express newspaper.
Since then he has conducted numerous reports of various issues in different regions of the world in protest against the Basque Country on the Nuclear Power Plant Lemóniz (1978), in Africa on the Caravan of Salt (1980), Cuba and the Caribbean, which makes several reports on santería.En 1985 starts working as a correspondent for La Vanguardia, covering events like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the Gulf War.
Since 1998 complaint made social stories, such as prostitution in Brazil, women burned in Bangladesh, malaria in Africa or cultural diversity in Europe.
Manresa Kim has won major awards in photojournalism and Spain has been selected as one of the best photographers in Europe by the French magazine Photo.
Via ClubCultura
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