2nd Place winner
The earthquake in Nepal
DESCRIPTION
In front of the immense strength of the nature we are all equals.The earthquake that have hitted Nepal reached a 7.8 magnitude on richter scale, killing more than 9000 people and injuring more than 12000.
Hundreds of thousands of people became homeless.
A lot of buildings part of the UNESCO world heritage site have been destroyed.
During the devastating earthquake the survivors helped each other in order to rescue the more people they could, without thinking about the social system of the castes.
Leaving the prejudiceis behind, all togheter have tried to fight this calamity for the good of their own families.
AUTHOR
Giacomo d'Orlando is an Italian documentary photographer currently based in New Zealand. He begun his career of professional photographer in 2011, when he was 21, working for a photographic studio in his born city, Verona.
After more than 3 years spent in the advertising photography industry, he decided to follow his true passion, the documentary photography. For this purpose, in 2015 he decided to move to Nepal where he begun his first long-term project about the Gender Based Violence. Since that time he specialize himself documenting social issues and environmental problems while occasionally is working for travel magazines.
In the last years he has been living in Nepal, Peru, Austrlia and now is currently living in New Zealand, where is carrying on a long term project about the Refugees of the Climate Change.
His purpose is report the social and environmental issues that our world is going through nowadays, giving to the people who don’t have the chance to travel the chance to raise their awareness about these important topics.
