http://www.digitalcameraworld.com JUNE 2019 DIGITAL CAMERA^69Hotshots
The 2019 Sony World Photography Awards
The Sony World Photography Awards is one of the most
prestigious global photographic events. It’s a competition
programme for professionals and amateurs alike, plus students.
SWPA welcomes some of the most influential names in the
international photographic industry, from press and media
to gallery owners, publishers, agents, critics, aficionados
and the renowned artists themselves. http://www.worldphoto.orgCamera Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Exposure 1/500 sec at f/4, ISO 400From the series ‘Five Degrees’
Federico Borella
“Tamil Nadu, May 2018. One of the skulls claimed to be the skull
of a farmer who committed suicide, held by Mr Premkumar,
a member of the South Indian Farmers Association. This skull
was also used during a protest in Delhi in 2017, where farmers
demanded a drought relief package and loan waiver for
peasants from the state. But what leads farmers to this
extreme act? They run into debt to invest in production
and machinery maintenance, and to repay previous loans.
Thus, a kernel of slow and gradual mental agony sneaks
into these land workers’ minds, and grows into the
shame they feel towards their family and society.”i