Photojournalism: Honorable Mention 2016 (amateur)
ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The crowd violate the curfew imposed by the indian security forces and offer the pray on the road of Srinagar (Kashmir) as sign of protest against the indian occupation.
The killing of Burhan Wani,the commander of a kashmiri armed group, by the indian army on the 8th july 2016 provoked a new summer of protests with the demand for freedom. After four months of clashes beetwen the population and the security forces 93 people have died and 13.000 have got injured.
AUTHOR
Camillo Pasquarelli was born in Rome in 1988.
He inherits the passion for photography from his father, but only after completing his studies in Political Science and Anthropology decides to devote himself entirely to the reportage. With a strong training in Visual Anthropology, he attend several schools and workshop.
He deals with documentary photography through the combination of the anthropological approach and the photographic medium.
In 2015 he spend five months in the valley of Kashmir for an anthropological research about the indo-pakistan conflict and separatist kashmiri political sentiments. In 2016 he covered the anti- indian uprising.
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