ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The Chicken Coop, is the name given to a settlement of Romanian Roma, largest in Europe is only 14 miles from downtown Madrid, Spain.
There are around 200 families, with a high birth rate
adolescent women, these families live in "slums", poor quality housing, built with materials found in the trash, like pieces of wood, doors, billboards, etc ..
His most working people in selling scrap.

AUTHOR
Nacho Left (Santiago de Chile, 1978). His career has run behind the camera since the early years in his native Chile. He came to Spain to complete his training and eventually settled in our country to develop a long career as a photojournalist. His photos have illustrated disasters, sports events and social movements. Precisely its strong social commitment has granted his greatest hits. The fotodenuncia-protest and photography are two of their specialties. Your camera has captured the situation of the most disadvantaged sections of society and some dramatic moments emerged at the dawn of the economic crisis in our country: closures in banks, evictions, poverty. He has worked in the daily New Alcarria and Guadalajara Day, also working intensively in the field of sports photography. During his last season in Chile, El Mercurio newspaper joined this photographer, whose images could enjoy current information to illustrate this emerging country. Back in Spain, his photos can be seen in various local and national newspapers, freelance for various agencies like EFE, Corbis, Wostok .Recently Guadalajara Photographic Association has awarded one of its work on the families of dependents. Alberto smile and deep eyes Aurelia were the germ of this exhibition that aims to denounce the indignity posed to our society that governments cut weaker. Then came Lorenzo and Encarna, Paco and Alba. The aim of Nacho never came between them. Actually he joined them. No one better than Nacho Left to protest with his photographs on this terrible social injustice.
"Their pictures speak. Sometimes I feel that my words get in the way. I admire his ability to tell a story in a single image "(Sonia Jodra, journalist)

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