Alessandro Cinque
By LatAm ARTE
Alessandro Cinque is a photojournalist based in Lima. His work delves into mining’s devastating impact on indigenous and their lands. Alessandro has been documenting environmental contamination and public health concerns among the communities of peasants living along Peru’s mining corridor. In 2017, working in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, he met a 53yo woman who told him that she got cancer because the water in her village was highly contaminated. Since then, Alessandro has committed to photographing the effects of the pollution that permeates the crops, livestock, and homes of the people residing near mining sites. Alessandro’s attention to social and environmental issues affecting minorities has often driven his work. In 2017, he documented gold mining in Senegal and Kolbars smuggling goods at the border between Iraq and Iran. In 2019, while studying at the ICP in New York, he portrayed Williamsburg’s Italo-American community and traveled to Arizona to photograph the abandoned uranium mines in the Navajo territories. His photos were published in the New York Times, NYT Lens Blog, NatGeo, MarieClaire, Libèration, L’Espresso. In 2019, his work on Peru won POYi’s Issue Reporting Picture Story first place. In December 2019, Alessandro moved to Lima to become more acquainted with Peru’s culture and society. He began contributing to Reuters’ coverage of Latin America while expanding his project on the impact of Peru’s mining industry on Quechua populations.
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