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Where God weeps with hope: the story freezer

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 "During the last few months, my work has taken me to the Amazon in Brazil and Lake Turkana in Kenya, seeking to portray the human condition with my camera, beyond race, religion or beliefs. First and foremost, the people," says photojournalist Ismael Martínez. Una chica recibe clases particulares en Abidjan (Costa de Marfil). Harambee Africa International. I am a photojournalist. I look for a story behind every shot, a person behind the story and a hope behind life. I try to photographically portray the human condition in Brazil, Spain or Kenya. For 80 percent of humanity, life is a lottery where God seems to have distributed the tickets among the winners themselves? Faced with such a panorama, the question can be quite simple: what would have happened if I (Andalusian) had been born fifteen kilometres down the Strait of Gibraltar in a different religion and culture? How and to what extent does a country and a family influence us? Ismael, author of the report and photojourna