Lizardi Saucedo

"Georg Friedrich Händel's Messiah, a glorious oratorio that hides a story that deserves to be told. by  Alejandro Sada Every time Christmas time approaches, thousands of people around the world listen once again to the magnificent arias and choruses that make up the most celebrated work of sacred music of all time: Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah . Underneath this glorious oratorio lies a story that deserves to be told. The great writer Stefan Zweig even considered it to be one of the highlights of human history, one of those moments that set a new course for the world. On 13 April 1737, Händel , exhausted, ill and overburdened with debts, collapsed from an attack of cerebral palsy that caused a stroke on the right side of his body. His condition is so pitiful that the doctor says: "Perhaps we can keep the man. The musician we have lost. However, with the strength of an irrepressible spirit, the composer travels to the hot baths of Aachen, where after six weeks he is...

 "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...