Beautiful Poison

• Prize
  Silver in Editorial/Environmental
• Photographer
  Cristopher Rogel Blanquet
• Agency / Studio
  Freelance
• Technical Info
  Digital Photograpy
• Photo Date
  2020

BEAUTIFUL POISON is a long-term photography project documenting the public health problem associated to the unrestricted use of agrochemicals by the flower industry in the region of Villa Guerrero, Mexico. Despite conclusive medical studies linking pesticide and fertilizer components to the recurrence of congenital malformations, leukemia, lymphoma, degenerative blindness, stillbirths, infertility and cancer, the healthcare demands of the population in Mexico’s flower belt have largely been overlooked by local authorities and institutions.