33 minatori, 69 giorni, 600 metri sotto terra. Ivan Alvarado

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"The miner in the photo is Johnny Barrios, and is part of the first video that the government distributed showing the condition in which the miners were. My first impulse was to take a clean photo just of the screen as a simple reproduction or frame grab. I looked for a dark place to eliminate reflections and put the laptop on top of a vehicle. I took one step back and the composition just came to me. The lights on the rocky horizon are from the mine, and the moon appeared just above. What I originally meant to be a simple reproduction became my way of illustrating a part of the miners’ story A computer screen shows one of the miners trapped underground August 26, 2010".

Text and picture by Ivan Alvarado