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MATJAZ KRIVIC Winner of the World Press Photo 2016 award
22.02.2016 10:56

Matjaž Krivic – winner of the prestigious World Press Photo 2016 award and one of the fifteen finalists of Exposure Awards 2015 by LensCulture magazine

The photo of a mine worker from Burkina Faso by Matjaž Krivic, which is on display as part of his overview exhibition until the end of February at KIBLA PORTAL on Valvasorjeva Street 40 in Maribor, won second prize in the People Singles category of the eminent World Press Photo 2016 (held for the 59th time). The twenty-member jury, composed of world-class renowned photographers, editors and journalists, voted in eight categories and filtered down their selection by choosing from a very extensive body of works (5775 photographers from 128 countries sent 82951 images) on the bases of advanced technical, esthetic and journalist criteria.

At the same time Krivic's series Digging the Future has listed him among the fifteen finalists in the Series category of Exposure Awards 2015, which is sponsored by LensCulture online magazine. The jury (Denise Wolff, Aperture - New York, Roger Tooth, Guardian - London, Chris Littlewood, Flowers Gallery - London, David Chickey, Radius Books - Santa Fe, Christopher Rauschenberg, Blue Sky Gallery - Portland and others) was selecting among thousands of images that were submitted from over 120 countries - as either single images, or in series of works. The winners and finalists of the 2015 Exposure Awards will be exhibited on 19 - 22 May 2016 at Somerset House in London, during Photo London — London’s New Premier Photography Fair.

The series Digging the Future, created in 2015, depicts the life of mine workers in the Burkina Faso artisanal gold mines. The miners with their companions keep bringing bags full of stones from the depths of the shafts - some up to sixty meters deep and incredibly narrow - and breathe the black earth full of poisonous lead, day in, day out. While grinding the ore, the heavy metals attack their lungs, find their way into the soil and into their drinking water. The mercury and cyanide that are needed in order to extract the gold, which then shines for the clients, destroy their bodies and poison the soil they live on forever...

More:
http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/context/photo/2016
https://www.lensculture.com/2015-lensculture-exposure-award-winners
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