In 1996, the Argentinian government approved the cultivation of transgenic soybeans and the use of glyphosate herbicide spray, only relying on studies from the Monsanto Company. With nearly two decades of glyphosate spraying directly or indirectly affecting one third of the country's population, Argentina has become a field study in toxic disaster with hundreds of scientific studies and medical surveys confirming the herbicide's lethal impact. Respiratory and skin disorders, mental disabilities, and spontaneous abortions are just a few of the documented health effects on those living directly in the spray's path.
Pablo E. Piovano(b. 1981) is a photojournalist and multi-scholarship winner based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a staff photographer for the Página / 12 newspaper in Buenos Aires since the age of 18.
The devastating impact of 20 years of indiscriminate use of Monsanto agrochemicals in the rural northeast of Argentina
Minamata: The Story of the Poisoning of a City, and of the People Who Choose to Carry the Burden of Courage |Eugene|Smith|9780030136368&Holt, Rinehart, and Winston|1975&
The Long Shadow of Chernobyl |Gerd|Ludwig|9783901753664&Antique Collectors Club|2014&
Features and reviews expected in diverse national and international publications
Promotion on the publisher's and the artist's websites, pablopiovano.com; as well as on Youtube with the short film El Costo Humano,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7U9-Es1LlE
Promotion via the publisher's catalog, email newsletter, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
Expected publicity at national and international photo and photo book festivals: Paris Photo, Photo London, etc.
Expected publicity through participation at major national and international photo book awards, e.g. PDN Photo Annual, Poyi Award, Arles Photo Book Award, Aperture Paris Photo Book Award