ROADTRIPS

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Tuesday, August 10, 2010 | 5 photos

This trip to the Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria, north Africa, ment a whole new vision of what travelling means and how people is changed by the visited places.

As a photographer I´ve worked in sport events in South Corea and rock concerts in México and the United States, but for the first time my vision of life changed in the refugee camps, this is the vision I want to share.

Besides revolutionary politics or NGO positions, see how people tries to keep their traditions in extreme conditions, and how kids grow in a cold war enviroment is a demonstration of how radically different can be the visions of life in the world, but also how far can the human been fight for what he wants.

What Sahrawi peolpe wants since the invasion in 1975 by the Kingdom of Morocco, is to be free and autosuficient: free from being harrased by Morocco´s police inside the invade sterritory and stop depending on the double moral of first world government´s help for the refugee camps. They want to built industries in their invaded territory but also see the people on the other side of the wall that Morocco has built to divide families.

Since 1991, UN put a stop to the fire, leaving a whole country waiting for a resolution to the conflict...Will they be an independent state? Will they become an actual part of Morocco...Or will they take their guns again to take back their lands? As time passes...still life continues.