100Eyes

100Eyes is an online photographic showcase featuring contemporary photography including documentary, art, and journalistic photography. Edited by Andy Levin, 100Eyes is made possible by the generosity of photographers who donate their work in the spirit of a shared photographic community.

About Andy Levin

Andy Levin is a photographer, teacher, and editor living in New Orleans, Louisiana. A contributing photographer with Life Magazine in the 90's, Levin moved to Louisiana a year before Hurricane Katrina from his native city of New York. A finalist for the Eugene Smith Prize in 2008, Levin is interested in the rights of the underclass, and the relationship between a changing environment and the economically challenged. Levin is the editor of the acclaimed internet photography journal 100eyes. His personal website is http://www.andylevin.com.

Blog Roll

Contributing Photogs

Features

Resources

Upcoming Workshops

Watching

Nanni Fontana

This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled.

Moskitia Indians
Photographs by Nanni Fontana

 

La Moskitia is a region between Honduras and Nicaragua that is home of the Miskitos indigenous minority. In the Honduran Moskitia, 75% of the population live below the poverty line. 77 out of 1000 children die because of diarrhoea, malaria, tuberculosis and malnutrition. The rate of infant mortality is comparable to that of Uganda.

There area lacks any semblence of an infrastructure, and there is no access to medicine and medical assistance. The only hospital is in Puerto Lempira, the capital of the Dipartimiento de Gracias a Dios. There are two surgery rooms but they are badlt unequipped. Only the luckiest families can rely on small 15-horsepower motorboat that are required to reach the hospital and even those with boats it can take many hours to reach the hospital.

La Moskitia is only by plane or by boat. There are no roads that connect it with the rest of the country. Water is the predominant element in the life of the Miskitos, and many survive by working as lobster fishermen.

Rich businessmen from the Bay Islands send their ship in Puerto Lempira to collect people wishing to be employed. Their equipment is old and the divers are tempted to take chances by the prospect of earning a much needed payday. Many suffer from Decompression Syndrome which leaves them unable to work and even paralyzed.

Nanni Fontana was born in Milan in 1975. In 2001, after graduation in international financial market’s economy, he became a professional photojournalist. He has collaborated with New York based agency WpN and Milan based agency Prospekt Photographers and his work has been published in Il Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Die Tageszeitung, Yedioth Ahronoth, L’Espresso, D la Repubblica delle Donne, The Economist, Newsweek and Internazionale.
Link to this page:  Nanni Fontana
Comments

1 comment so far/Click to Read Comments