Ernesto Benavides

Photographer

Bio

Ernesto Benavides is Peruvian documentary photographer working primarily within South America. As a press photographer for the international agency Agence France-Presse, his work has been published

Nationality

Peruvian

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"LA PAMPA"

"LA PAMPA"

Seen from above, the Amazon resembles a huge billiard table, a field of intense green, pockmarked by brown stains. These stains are the sites of illegal mines, and they reveal the scope of a gold rush

Project by Ernesto Benavides
WANU

WANU

Still used in Peru’s Coast and Andes to fertilize fields that are often far from the ocean or earth where it mounts, guano is a marvelous organic product that comprises excrement from three types of seabirds.

Project by Ernesto Benavides