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Dust and Despair: A Coastal Cry for Water

In rural Peru, around 40% lack reliable water access. Communities like Huanchaco rely on costly, unreliable truck deliveries due to poor infrastructure. Despite APEC 2024, rural areas face water and waste challenges, deepening inequality and harming agriculture, businesses, and daily life.

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Color Photography Contest

2025

Gold

Photojournalism

Non Professional

Dust and Despair: A Coastal Cry for Water

In rural Peru, around 40% lack reliable water access. Communities like Huanchaco rely on costly, unreliable truck deliveries due to poor infrastructure. Despite APEC 2024, rural areas face water and waste challenges, deepening inequality and harming agriculture, businesses, and daily life.

About Artist

Jeremy Skirrow

I am an emerging documentary photographer from Canberra, Australia, now based in Medellín, Colombia. Primarily working with film and digital formats, I focus on social and economic issues, capturing the human side of complex global narratives. My background in economics and five years working in finance have shaped my perspective on inequality, global economic disparities, and the systemic forces that impact marginalised communities. These experiences inform my approach to storytelling. I aim to shed light on critical issues such as labor, migration, environmental challenges, and resource misallocation, as well as corruption. Recent projects, such as my documentation of the drought in Peru and the lives of workers in Plaza Mayorista, Medellín, reflect my dedication to uncovering untold stories. I remain open to exploring a broad range of social and economic topics, committed to telling impactful stories across various global issues. Though I am in the early stages of my photojournalism career, my earlier photography has been featured in exhibitions in Jakarta and Melbourne, and published in Night Timin’, Docu Magazine, and by brands like Skyscanner and Wanderlust. I am committed to authentic visual storytelling that challenges perceptions and sparks social change. I am eager to collaborate on projects that have a meaningful impact and continue to amplify stories of resilience and social justice.

Jeremy Skirrow

Photographic Areas of Focus

Architecture, Architecture, Film/Analog, Film/Analog, Photojournalism, Photojournalism, Street, Travel

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Australia

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