The Legacy of Photos – Witness

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The Legacy of Photos

How Mario Cruz’s pictures of captive children in Senegal are changing lives and legislation

via Medium: https://witness.worldpressphoto.org/the-legacy-of-photos-bb71b65afb45

Mario Cruz (Instagram) is a 31-year-old photographer based in Lisbon, Portugal. Starting in 2006, he worked with LUSA, a Portuguese news agency, and European Pressphoto Agency, before starting to work on his own personal projects more fully in 2012. “The talibes project appeared naturally,” he remembers: