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…
Mario Cruz: Talibes, Modern-day Slaves Talibe is an Arabic term for disciple. In Senegal, what was once a respectable education system has become criminal. What tries to pass as religious teaching today has become a business for exploiting children
Roof – Photographs and text by Mario Cruz | LensCulture Living in the heart of Lisbon but very much on the periphery, this series documents the lives of people who have been forced to take shelter in seemingly abandoned buildings across the city via LensCulture: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/mario-cruz-roof According to a Lisbon City Hall study, there are…
An Elusive Roof of One’s Own in Lisbon A project about squatters and the homeless in Lisbon examines the overlooked casualties of Portugal’s economic troubles. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/an-elusive-roof-of-ones-own-in-lisbon/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Mario Cruz set out at the beginning of 2014 to work on a project he had put off for more than a year, portraying squatters who…
