• Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos
  • Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos

Pablo E. Piovano The Human Cost of Agrotoxins El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos

In 1996 the Argentinian government approved, only relying on studies of the Monsanto Company, the cultivation of transgenic soybeans and the use of glyphosate herbicide spray, which was employed on resistant genetically-modified crops. With nearly two decades of glyphosate spraying affecting directly or indirectly 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: Pediatric cancer cases have tripled, miscarriages, and unexplained birth defects have dramatically increased. 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. Despite this inconvenient truth, there has not been any official systematized information.

The Human Cost of Agrotoxins / El Costo Humano de los Agrotóxicos documents the impact of 20 years of indiscriminate use of agrochemicals in the rural northeast of Argentina, and the devastating impact of the people and their environment.

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.

Hardcover 21 x 24 cm 144 pages 89 duotone illustrations English, Spanish Available ISBN 978-3-86828-767-7 2017

Artist:

Pablo E. Piovano

Texts:

Darío Aranda, Patricio Eleisegui, Damián Marino, Pablo E. Piovano, Carlos Rodríguez, Guillermo Saccomanno, Carmen Vicente, Wendy Watriss, Jan-Christoph Wiechmann

Design:

Kehrer Design (Anja Aronska)

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Awards

Winner of the Henri Nannen Preis 2018 in the category reportage photography:
In  einem vergifteten Land / STERN

Exhibitions

YEAST Photofestival, Matino, Italy
19.09. - 03.11.2024

Umweltfotofestival »horizonte zingst«
20.05. - 29.05.2022

Atelier l’Oeil Vert, Paris
29.08. - 28.09.2019

Ian Willms | Pablo E. Piovano: Greenpeace Photo Award
f³ – freiraum für fotografie, Berlin
28.08. -3.11.2019

Landwirtschaft der Gifte. Ihr Preis für den Menschen
Kunsträume Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
01.05. - 20.05.2019

Landwirtschaft der Gifte. Ihr Preis für den Menschen
Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
18.10. - 30.12.2017

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