Victor Anton, Author at Positive Magazine

Emanuele Nutile - Noroc Maroc

Edited by Victor Anton

Noroc Maroc is a group of five Romanian Gypsies who have settled in Barcelona for more than five years, living of junk collection.

They have been victims of multiple evictions by police because they generally occupy vacant land.

by Victor Anton

Iacopo Pasqui, UNCOMMONTIME

photos & text by Iacopo Pasqui

edited by Victor Anton

Uncommon time è un diario fotografico realizzato in dodici settimane e sviluppato in trittici, ed è il racconto di una realtà attraverso i non luoghi del quotidiano. Il lavoro esplora il tessuto urbano con il quale solitamente mi relaziono, e ritrae momenti e situazioni nelle quali sono coinvolto, per volontà o casualità.

by Victor Anton

Paris Photo 2012, the New Vision of Moholy Nagy and Trent Parke.

Edited by Victor Anton, Photography editor.
An Article about the photographers Moholy Nagy and Trent Parke: you can see their photos at the next
Paris Photo Fair: you can find more informations about it on our website

Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

by Victor Anton

Juan Herrero - Yemen

photos & text by Juan Herrero

edited by Victor Anton

Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East. Last year, during the revolution, the yemeni economy contracted by 50% and inflation reached 23%. Nearly half of the population does not have enough to eat now, living below the poverty line of $2 a day. Five million need urgent aid. The figures are not far from the situation in Sahel in Africa or Afghanistan, but unfortunately this is not attracting attention from the world. Even those people who are still able to buy food are struggling. They are selling assets, skipping meals and sleeping during the day to ward off hunger. Families are marrying off their young daughters in order to have one less mouth to feed.

by Victor Anton

Isabell Zipfel - The coalfields of Jharia

text & photos by Isabell Zipfel

edited by Victor Anton

In Jharia, in the federal state of Jharkhand, around 600,000 people live in the middle of one of India's biggest coal mining areas. There's nothing in it for most of them. Quite the opposite: the soil, the water and the air are now contaminated, of all things in an area that was previously rich in woodland.

The story of Jharia is the story of how the greed for profit, vested interests and the thirst for power have prevailed and led to one of the areas richest in minerals in India remaining so economically backward. For the mining marginalises the poor and deepens social inequality in the name of economic development, from which mostly only metropolises like Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai profit. Read more

by Victor Anton

Valentino Bellini - Bodies at work

text & photos by Valentino Bellini

edited by Victor Anton

When the body and life becomes the raw material, can the raw material be recognized as a worker?

Ghana is a country rich in natural resources, especially of gold, which is extracted with bare hands by a lowcost labor force, to be sold at competitive prices on the international market. Since the sixteenth century, during the British colonial era, Ghana was one of the main areas of gold exportation: the breadth of the annual production of Ghanaian mines place today the country in second place worldwide after South Africa. In Akwatia outdated equipment and techniques are used and the situation is compounded by the complicity of the government. The first factor of the environmental impact of gold mining is in the artificial diversion of rivers: after the completion of mining activities, the river is not redirected to its original course, causing water pollution and destruction of flora and fauna - the commons at the base of social reproduction - and impoverishing living conditions of the workers themselves, already exhausted by industrial fordist work/life patterns. Pollution, in extreme cases, leads to desertification and permanent inability to use the land for subsistence economy.

by Victor Anton

Simone Nascetti, The missing women

text and photos by Simone Nascetti

edited by Victor Anton

According to the United Nations, in Asia, the gender difference between men e women is very high. The Nobel prize for economy, Amartya Sen, define this difference as the “mystery of the missing women”. These are the women that would exist, if not being for selective abortion, infanticide and the social-economic discrimination. In many Asian societies the girls have less attention comparing to the boys because they are economically underestimated.

In India, the second most populated country in the world, this phenomenon has a big dimension. Here, the discrimination comes directly from the low condition of the women in the society: patriarchal systems, woman subjection to the husband and combined marriages. A daughter is in transit at her ancestral home. At the time of marriage she will leave and devote herself to the husband's family. From that moment on she will stop giving anything to her parents.

by Victor Anton

Fatima pilgrimage, Pedro Nunes

text & photos by Pedro Nunes

edited by Victor Anton

Fátima Pilgrimage 2011 The International Anniversary Pilgrimage of May 2011 was presided over by American Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts.

On the 12 May, there was the candlelight procession, and on the 13 May there was a national celebration at the Shrine of Fatima, in order to mark the beatification of John Paul II, during wich a rainbow appeared around the sun, and many pilgrims looked at the sky, some thinking it was a miracle.

This reportage is about the faces, the tears, the sacrifices and the unquestionable and overwhelming faith of Fatima pilgrims on those two days in Fatima sanctuary.