Title: Violencias
Photographer(s): Eduardo Longoni
Writer(s): Eduardo Longoni
Designer(s): Estudio Masolo, Fabio Masolo
Publisher(s): Libros del Naufrago, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Year: 2012
Print run:
Language(s): Spanish
Pages: 100
Size: 23 x 26 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Grafica MPS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Argentina, 1981-2007
ISBN: 9789872557386
Eduardo Longoni's Violencias series is a collection of works documenting events of great political impact in Argentina from 1981 to 2007, a period in which the photographer worked for Agencia Noticias Argentinas, the independent agency EPD Photo and Diario Clarín. With the committed and direct gaze of a true photojournalist, Longoni's images cover a dark period of our recent history.
A few years after starting his career as a photographer, Longoni took this photograph, an absolutely rare testimony of a military act. Dozens of soldiers are lined up but instead of looking straight ahead they turn their heads and look directly at the photographer's camera. As Longoni recounts, he was sent to cover the army day and stood between the non-commissioned officers and the army general speaking. It was then that he turned around with his camera and saw all those NCOs looking not at him but at the general. This incidental image remained of that then unpublishable scene of the men in uniform looking at us with their eyes.