ENTRY DESCRIPTION
A photograph taken in the poor and dry region of Maranhão, in the Brazilian Northeast. I entered a family's home and saw this quiet, shy little girl looking at me. It was a striking portrait, which shows the reality of the people of Brazil.

AUTHOR
Érico Hiller has been a documentary photographer for 20 years. In 2008 he published his first major authorial project entitled EMERGENTES, about social and environmental tensions in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and Russia. Between 2011 and 2012 he was in the Arctic, Mount Kilimanjaro, Ethiopia, Maldives and the Atlantic Forest portraying regions affected by the destructive human presence for his book AMEAÇADOS. In 2016 he releases a work that achieves wide public and international media interest, THE RINOCERON'S JOURNEY, a modern manifesto on the poaching of rhinos in Africa and Asia. In THE SALT MARCH (2018) Érico walked the 400km route that Mahatma Gandhi walked in India in 1930 from Ahmedabad to Dandi Beach. In 2020 he launches his long-awaited mega-project WATER, whose photographs show a panorama of the struggle of diverse peoples in search of clean water to survive in countries like Bangladesh, Bolivia, Jordan, and Kenya. Érico has already shown his photos in solo exhibitions for a large public in places such as Museu do Amanhã, Museu da Casa Brasileira, Casa Bandeirista, and Leica Gallery. His current work proposes a deep reflection on the condition of women in the world, in images that he has captured throughout his photographic career over the past two decades. His first project in black and white will promote a great social impact, directing revenue to the contexts photographed. FROM DESPAIR TO DIGNITY is a dialogue for a greater collective awareness about the theme and will encourage readers to social engagement; it brings an urgent, current, and disturbing subject that needs to reach everyone's eyes. Scheduled for release in 2024, the book will present an unprecedented and vast material on the experiences and testimonies of a humanitarian photographer who has documented in depth important aspects of our society in

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