FRIDAY 7 | Near the city of León in Nicaragua is an impoverished 8,000-strong community of Subtiava Indians, forced onto inhospitable lands where the rate of teenage pregnancy is now twice that of sub-Saharan Africa. Most households have been robbed of their men by civil war. Those who remain labour in sugarcane fields doused in toxins, kidney failure accounting for more than 80% of deaths in men aged 35 – 45. Since 2007, photographer Martin Bandzak has been carefully documenting the cycle of poverty in Subtiava for his new exhibition, El Campo, which opens at Tepui tonight.
WHO: Martin Bandzak
WHAT: El Campo photography exhibition
WHERE: Tepui @ Chinese House, #45 Sisowath Quay (corner of Street 84)
WHEN: 7pm February 7
WHY: There but for the grace of God…