Judith Prat

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MATRIA is the recognition of the land as the only homeland, the land in which my mother, my father, my grandmothers and all my ancestors sunk their hands into to feed us, just as 1.2 billion peasants continue to do today, feeding the planet. It is also a tribute to the peasant woman, the heart and engine of family farming, who, throughout the world, guarantees food sovereignty and security.

MATRIA is a cry of warning against the aggressions suffered by Mother Earth on the part of agribusiness or large-scale mining, fundamental pillars of a speculative economy that finds huge dividends in food and the savage exploitation of natural resources. It is also a cry for help in the face of human rights violations suffered by peasants around the world.

At the epicenter of this situation are women, who suffer additional problems such as the difficulty of access to land, a decisive issue that leads to structural discrimination (family, social and economic) that generates specific forms of violence.

Such is the transcendence of the peasantry’s problem that in December 2018 the United Nations approved the Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas.

This photographic work proposes a visual account of the reality that the Declaration aims to protect, developing four of the most relevant rights that it encumbrances and documenting situations in which these rights are violated in five different scenarios on the planet. It also provides the visual traces of the alternatives proposed by the rural community, with special attention to those in which women play a leading role.

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Author

Judith Prat

Spanish photographer. After graduating in law and specializing in human rights, she decided to devote himself professionally to documentary photography. Her work seeks to challenge the viewer, to provoke not only emotion but also reflection.

In recent years he has worked in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East documenting issues such as the war in Yemen, the violence of Boko Haram in Nigeria, the armed conflict and coltan mines in the DR Congo, the conflict in Kurdistan, the living conditions of the Syrian refugee population in neighboring countries or femicide in Ciudad Juarez, among others.

In 2018 the BBVA Foundation awarded her the Leonardo Scholarship for research in communication and information sciences and in 2017, she received the Artes&Letras Photography Award. Her work has been awarded in international festivals and competitions such as Human photojournalism contest 2015 in Canada, the Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2014 in UK, Photofest Award 2014 in Mexico, Prix de la Photographie Paris 2014, International Photography Awards (IPA) 2014 and 2013 in USA, Moscow International Photo Awards 2014 or the Albarracín Photography and Journalism Seminar 2013.

She publishes in different national and international media such as The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Vice, VVoz, El Mundo, eldiario.es or el Confidencial.

Her work has been exhibited in Spain at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, PhotoESPAÑA or the Lonja de Zaragoza, among many other venues and in cities such as Quebec, Montreal, Moscow, Querétaro or Avignon.

She has directed the multimedia Boko Haram, “A war against them” (based on the testimonies of women kidnapped by Boko Haram) and the documentary short film “You, sit down” (about the military campaign of the Turkish state against the Kurdish civilian population in the winter of 2016).

She is a member of the women photographers collective Colectivo 4F.

http://www.judithprat.com

Time

September 9 (Thursday) - October 8 (Friday)(GMT-11:00)

Location

Médez Nuñez Gardens

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