Libya: A Human Market Place

 

It takes a considerable amount of balls or cojones in Spanish,  to be a war photographer. Certainly there’s a frisson talking to the Pulitzer Prize winning Mexico City born Narciso Contreras, 41, accompanied by the thoughts of how well you would perform yourself in a situation that requires extreme people skills regarding your safety as well as noticing whats really going on. Maybe it’s because Naricso’s a Mexican, that the Libyans  don’t see him as tarnished like the Americans or Brits.  It’s  immediately obvious that he comes from a different position, one with none of the baggage or problems associated. Dark skinned, with limitless deep steady intelligent eyes, he has a gentleness that is edged with baked experience and the harshness of the desert.

Broke the Story

Uncovering _ bulk buying by the hundreds – (How is immigration policy to change in the face of this determined organised – commerce of souls-.

Narciso tells of how complex the picture is of dealing  with the collective competing tribes of the post Civil War 2011. Where everyday life, safety,  respect or degree of trust depends on the tribe you belong to,  depending again on which particular branch or city those kinships are linked with.