Living with Mines: Ten Years

Award-winning photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez has been working since 1995 to raise awareness about the devastating humanitarian impact of landmines.

Landmines not only kill and severely disable thousands of people every year, but also prevent farmers from working on their land and children from going to school, impeding much needed economic development for years after a conflict has ended.

Vidas Minadas: Living with Mines tells the stories of landmine survivors from Angola, Bosnia, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Iraq, Mozambique and Nicaragua where there are still high numbers of landmine casualties 14 years after the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention was signed.

This six-week photography exhibition is on display at the gallery@oxo and has been brought to London by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs at the Embassy of Spain and The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

The work was funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AECID), Intermón Oxfam, Mans Unides, Médécins sans Frontières and DKV Seguros.

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