The Landless Workers Movement (MST)
The Landless Workers Movement (MST), founded in 1982, has three objectives: to fight for land, for agrarian reform and for social change in the country. Brazil is one of the countries with the highest concentration of land in the world; it is also the territory with the largest landowners. Concentration and unproductivity have historical roots that have established the basis for the country’s social inequality that persists to this day. Francisco Proner went to meet the people who live and embody this movement.
Francisco Proner
Brazilian photographer and member of Agence VU’ since 2020, Francisco Proner is based in Rio de Janeiro. Above all, his projects record the climate of high social tension that shapes the complexity of Latin American geopolitical and environmental situations. His reportage work is regularly published in the Brazilian and international press. In 2022, he covered the presidential elections in Brazil – from the launch of the campaigns to the victory of President Lula on October 30th.
Exhibition presented within the framework of the Zoom Photo Festival Saguenay.
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