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La Lonja de Zaragoza hosts the exhibition Mined Lives. 25 years, by photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez, open to the public until January 7, 2024.
The images show the lives of people who suffer the consequences and consequences caused by anti-personnel mines left by war conflicts in different countries around the world.
The exhibition is made up of a selection of 114 photographs that the author has taken in his different professional works, a project that began in 1995 on the impact of landmines.
The photojournalist himself explains it in the presentation of the exhibition: “The damage caused by mines is lifelong. The victims of this project were chosen at random in African countries such as Angola and Mozambique, Asian countries such as Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, Latin Americans such as El Salvador, Nicaragua and Colombia or Europeans such as Bosnia-Herzegovina”.
“I met them in hospitals about to be amputated or seriously injured with the possibility of dying when they were minors, in orthopedic centers where they were trying to walk again with plastic legs, in foundations where they were mistreated and abused or in families that survived with many difficulties. “he details.
The exhibition is divided into several areas that tell us about the lives of nine people who one day saw their lives cut short due to an anti-personnel mine.
Different places and the same pain, the exhibition reflects the consequences and that daily drama in a series of images that bring us closer to an unfair, current and everyday reality, as detailed in the presentation of the exhibition.
