Kápar
‘Kápar’, according to Quechua, means to ‘castrate’. When Alberto Fujimori was president of Peru from 1990 - 2000, the National Program of Reproductive Health and Family Planning was put in place to reduce poverty, with a concentration on rural women. According to the Ombudsman's Office, 272 028 women were sterilized, of which 2166 reported to having been subjected to deception or threats. Due to malpractice and negligence, many died and others have cancer of the uterus, or serious infections in the womb, that prevent them from returning to their former lives. My photographic project seeks to narrate visually, through analogies between the earth and the wounds, the physical and psychological consequences of the victims of forced sterilization.
Yapatera: The descendants of slavery
Currently, the largest number of Afro-descendants live in Lima, Ica and Piura; places that concentrated a large number of slaves because of their agricultural development. In Piura, specifically, Yapatera emerged from the vestiges of a former sugar plantation and many of its residents survive under the shadow of malnutrition and infant mortality thanks to subsistence agriculture and incipient trade. According to a study by Unicef and the ONG Plan International, there are 7,600 inhabitants whose ethnic origin has generated discriminatory treatment. This has forced the majority of young people to leave their hometown and go out in search of new opportunities, leaving their parents and grandparents in solitude.
