The project “Vidas minadas” is an endless project, just as the aftermath of landmines is infinite. The author has been working with victims of this scourge since September 1995. In 1997, 2002 and 2007 he presented different versions of this project, which covers most of his professional life. Today he returns with “Vidas minadas, 25 años”, a cry against a terrible injustice and a daily drama.
The exhibition shows us the personal evolution or life story of some randomly chosen victims through their images, whether in hospitals, about to be amputated, or badly wounded, with the possibility of dying, or in orthopedic centers, where they were trying to walk again with plastic legs. Some of them have been luckier than others.
Those responsible for so much suffering hide behind a nebula of interests or acronyms. The arms industry is every day more powerful and impenetrable despite the laws on arms control that are passed in the parliaments of democratic countries and that almost always become a dead letter when it comes to the business of death.
