2010 Student Focus Winner: Series - VILLA EPECUEN - Victoria Ines Dobaño& Rodrigo Terrén Toro

Escuela Argentina de Fotografía, Argentina

Do we have the power to control nature?

We have believed it for thousands of years.

Epecuen used to be a turistic Villa with a saltwater lake, sought for its healing properties, ancient sacred place of the original peoples of Argentina. In 1985 it was completely flooded. The result is devastating, quite, disturbing. The power of water is overwhelming, he took up the dead.

The spoils of a typical village in the province of Buenos Aires appeals to other disasters like Katrina, tsunamis, earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, petrolum at the Gulf of Mexico, many more…Does power of nature escape to the power of men or would have been possible to mitigate negative consequences?