2nd Place winner
Man on Fire
DESCRIPTION
A man walks through burning tires used as roadblocks during a protest 6-25-19 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The protest was carried out by public university students from UNAH, and included faculty, public, social activists, and even high school students--all opposed to the privatization of the education and health sectors. Protests have been often and regular ever since the coup in 2009. After 10 years of struggling against a corrupt government and violent repression, little has changed. Honduras has an overlooked and misunderstood population that has continued to wander through a maze of illusory governance, only to be mistreated and shunned by the US when they show up to claim political asylum, when in fact, the US is largely responsible--by way of imperialism--for the condition that these people live in. AUTHOR
Seth is a photojournalist focused on documenting threats to the human condition in Central America and beyond. His work focuses on immigration, human rights violations, corruption, and indigenous communities. His stories have been published in The Intercept, The Nation, Vice World News, The Guardian, The New Humanitarian, ABC World News, and others. He is an Eddie Adams Workshop alumni and has won multiple awards for photos series taken in Honduras and Ukraine. He is currently working on two long-term projects; one about the extended consequences of imperialism and corruption titled Anchuria: A Once and Forever Banana Republic and another about the cultural resistance of the indigenous Garifuna on the coast of Honduras.Seth graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BFA in Literature.
